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Ridley, Jasper Godwin.

Elizabeth I : the shrewdness of virtue / Jasper Ridley.

1st American ed.

New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1988, ©1987.

391 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

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.

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.

Queens -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603.

Biographies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-347) and index.

The Protestant child -- The lady Elizabeth -- The lord admiral -- The tower -- The heir to the throne -- The coronation -- The Protestant realm -- John Knox -- Victory in Scotland -- Lord Robert -- Defeat in France -- The tolerant Queen -- Mary Queen of Scots -- In defence of monarchy -- The revolt in the Netherlands -- The contest with Alva -- The massacre of St Bartholomew -- Puritans and Anabaptists -- The rift with Spain -- The virgin Queen -- Ireland -- The Jesuits -- Intervention in the Netherlands -- Execution of a Queen -- Cadiz -- The armada -- Mutinies and failures -- Essex -- The old Queen -- The end.

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