One of the most famous and tortured romances in history - between Elizabeth I, Queen of England, and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex - began in 1587, when she was fifty-three and he was nineteen. This title portrays Elizabeth and Essex's compelling attraction for each other, their impassioned disagreements and their mutual struggle for power.
Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), one of the most famous writers of his time, was a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Set and a pioneer of a new style of biography. Author of, among others, Landmarks, Eminent Victorians and Queen Victoria (also Tauris Parke Paperbacks).
A beautiful and memorable book.
*Atlantic Monthly*
The real drama of ambition, passion and personality in the pageant
of veracious history.
*The Philadelphia Enquirer*
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