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Elizabeth's women : friends, rivals and foes who shaped the Virgin Queen

Examines Queen Elizabeth I through the eyes of the women who shaped her life--from her bewitching mother to her dangerously obsessive sister, and from the rivals to her throne to her rivals in love.

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  • "Elizabeth I has been portrayed as a 'man's woman', yet it's the women in her life who provide a fascinating insight into her character. Historian Tracy Borman explores Elizabeth's relationships with her mother, the governesses and stepmothers who cared for the young princess. New light is shed on her formative years. Elizabeth's turbulent relationships with her rivals are examined: from her sister, 'Bloody' Mary, to the sisters of Lady Jane Grey, and finally her deadliest rival, Mary Queen of Scots, whose son Elizabeth would have to recognise as heir to her throne. These are the servants, friends and 'flouting wenches' who brought out the best - and the worst - of Elizabeth's cultivated image as Gloriana, the Virgin Queen, in the glittering world of her court."
  • "Examines Queen Elizabeth I through the eyes of the women who shaped her life--from her bewitching mother to her dangerously obsessive sister, and from the rivals to her throne to her rivals in love."@en
  • "Examines Queen Elizabeth I through the eyes of the women who shaped her life--from her bewitching mother to her dangerously obsessive sister, and from the rivals to her throne to her rivals in love."
  • "A source of endless fascination and speculation, the subject of countless biographies, novels, and films, Elizabeth I is now considered from a thrilling new angle by the brilliant young historian Tracy Borman. So often viewed in her relationships with men, the Virgin Queen is portrayed here as the product of women--the mother she lost so tragically, the female subjects who worshipped her, and the peers and intimates who loved, raised, challenged, and sometimes opposed her. In vivid detail, Borman presents Elizabeth's bewitching mother, Anne Boleyn, eager to nurture her new child, only to see her taken away and her own life destroyed by damning allegations--which taught Elizabeth never to mix politics and love. Kat Astley, the governess who attended and taught Elizabeth for almost thirty years, invited disaster by encouraging her charge into a dangerous liaison after Henry VIII's death. Mary Tudor--"Bloody Mary"--envied her younger sister's popularity and threatened to destroy her altogether. And animosity drove Elizabeth and her cousin Mary Queen of Scots into an intense thirty-year rivalry that could end only in death. -- Elizabeth's Women From the Hardcover edition."

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  • "Large type books"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Biografieën (vorm)"
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  • "Elizabeth's women friends, rivals, and foes who shaped the Virgin Queen"
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  • "Elizabeth's women : friends, rivals, and foes who shaped the Virgin Queen"
  • "Elizabeth's women the hidden story of the Virgin Queen"@en
  • "Elizabeth's women the hidden story of the Virgin Queen"
  • "Elizabeth's women : the hidden story of the Virgin Queen"

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