Elizabeth I
Subtitle: the shrewdness of virtue
By: Jasper Ridley.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
Subjects: Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.; Queens -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603.
Description: Weaves history and biography to bring a portrait of Henry VIII's youngest daughter, the royal bastard of Anne Boleyn. Hesitant, indecisive, petulant, and contradictory, Elizabeth emerges from these pages as a consummate politician who transformed England from a peripheral European state into a world power.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 338-347.
Includes index.