Author: Sharon TurnerPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The History of England from the Earliest Period to the Death of Elizabeth: The history of England: reigns of Edward the Sixth-Mary-and Elizabeth. In two volumes
Author: Sharon TurnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Elizabeth and Mary
Author: Jane DunnPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307425746
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
"Superb.... A perceptive, suspenseful account." --The New York Times Book Review "Dunn demythologizes Elizabeth and Mary. In humanizing their dynamic and shifting relationship, Dunn describes it as fueled by both rivalry and their natural solidarity as women in an overwhelmingly masculine world." --Boston Herald The political and religious conflicts between Queen Elizabeth I and the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, have for centuries captured our imagination and inspired memorable dramas played out on stage, screen, and in opera. But few books have brought to life more vividly the exquisite texture of two women’s rivalry, spurred on by the ambitions and machinations of the forceful men who surrounded them. The drama has terrific resonance even now as women continue to struggle in their bid for executive power. Against the backdrop of sixteenth-century England, Scotland, and France, Dunn paints portraits of a pair of protagonists whose formidable strengths were placed in relentless opposition. Protestant Elizabeth, the bastard daughter of Anne Boleyn, whose legitimacy had to be vouchsafed by legal means, glowed with executive ability and a visionary energy as bright as her red hair. Mary, the Catholic successor whom England’s rivals wished to see on the throne, was charming, feminine, and deeply persuasive. That two such women, queens in their own right, should have been contemporaries and neighbours sets in motion a joint biography of rare spark and page-turning power.
The Life of a Travelling Physician
Author: George William LefevrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Fruit Grower's Instructor
Author: George BlissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fruit-culture
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Juryman's Legal Hand-book, and Manual of Common Law
Author: Thomas Harttree CornishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Common law
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The Last Year in China, to the Peace of Nanking
Author: The vegetable cultivator
Author: John RogersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vegetable gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A Treatise on Mental Derangement
Author: Francis Willis (M.D.)Publisher:
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Category : Mental illness
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Last Year in China, to the Peace of Nanking: as Sketched in Letters to His Friends, by a Field Officer, Actively Employed in that Country
Author: ChinaBulletin
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)