Re the biography and reign of Q. Elizabeth I:
Agnes Strickland, The Life of Queen Elizabeth (London: Dent, 1906)
J.B. Black, The Reign of Elizabeth (1959)
J.E. Neale, Queen Elizabeth I (1934, rsd. 1965; Anchor pb)
Conyers Read, The Tudors: Personalities and Politics in Sixteenth Century
England (1936)
--and Read’s books on Mr. Secretary Cecil and QE (1955), Lord Burghley and
QE (1960), and Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of QE (1925, reprint
1967)
E.C. Wilson, England’s Eliza (1939)
A.L. Rowse and G.B. Harrison, Queen Elizabeth and her Subjects (1955)
Elizabeth Jenkins, Elizabeth The Great (New York: Coward-McCann, 1958)
Neville Williams, Elizabeth, Queen of England (London: Weidenfeld & Nelson,
1967), and also by Williams, The Life and Times of Elizabeth I, and All the
Queen’s Men (both 1972)
Mary M. Luke, Gloriana: The Years of Elizabeth I (New York: Coward-McCann &
Geoghegan, 1973)
Lacie Baldwin Smith, Elizabeth Tudor: Portrait of a Queen (1976)
Carolly Erickson, The First Elizabeth (1983)
Wallace MacCaffrey, Elizabeth I (Edward Arnold, 1993), and, earlier, his The
Making of the Elizabethan Regime (1968)
Alison Weir, The Life of Elizabeth I (New York: Ballantine Books, 1998),
and, also by Weir, The Children of Henry VIII, and The Six Wives of Henry
VIII
Louis Montrose, The Subject of Elizabeth (Chicago UP, 2006)
To these may be added:
Antonia Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots (New York: Dell, 1969)
Jean Plaidy, Mary Queen of Scots: The Fair Devil of Scotland (London: Robert
Hale; New York: Putnam’s, 1975)
Alison Weir, Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley (New York
Blalantine, 2003)
Antonia Fraser, The Wives of Henry VIII (New York: Knopf, 1992: originally
Weidenfield and Nicholson, The Six Wifes of HVIII)
-- Jim N.
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:59:28 -0700
Jean Goodrich <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Anne,
>
> Indeed, you are right. If only we had a budget...
>
> Last spring, I needed to refer a student to a biography of Elizabeth and
>to
> a reference for the state and stages of Reformation under Henry and later,
> Elizabeth. I looked in my institution's collection and found nothing more
> advanced than encyclopedias. Sigh.
>
> I've also learned the hard way to be very picky about lending out my own
> books.
>
> Jean
>
>
>
> On 7/27/07, anne prescott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> I've been reminded--Paul Johnson. I haven't read Ridley on Elizabeth
>> because I was so vexed by his book on Thomas More (the cover shows
>> Holbein's portrait changed to look like Darth Vader with acid
>> reflux). But if David likes it I'll give it a go. I assume Jean
>> Goodrich's query is based on her interest in getting her library to
>> improve its early modern collection without going over budget? Anne P.
>>
>> On Jul 27, 2007, at 5:00 PM, David Wilson-Okamura wrote:
>>
>> > anne prescott wrote:
>> >> There's a politically conservative but/and interesting Englishman
>> >> whose name I am blanking on who did a book on Elizabeth I liked;
>> >> the subtitle is something like "A study of [in?] power and
>> >> intellect," which seems fair despite her faults.
>> >
>> > It may not be what you're thinking of, but I like Jasper Ridley's
>> > Elizabeth I: The Shrewdness of Virtue (1987).
>> >
>> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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>> > Dr. David Wilson-Okamura http://virgil.org
>> > [log in to unmask]
>> > English Department Virgil reception, discussion,
>> > documents, &c
>> > East Carolina University Sparsa et neglecta coegi. -- Claude
>> > Fauchet
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