Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [421]-461) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Elizabeth's women

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

670445752

Responsibility statement

Tracy Borman

Sub title

friends, rivals and foes who shaped the Virgin Queen

Summary

From Elizabeth I's bewitching mother, Anne Boleyn, to her dangerously obsessive sister, Mary Tudor, and from the rivals to her throne such as Mary, Queen of Scots, to the flounting wenches like Lettice Knollys, the women who surrounded the Virgin Queen had a profound influence on her. Elizabeths Women contains more than an indelible cast of characters. It is an unprecedented account of how the public posture of femininity figured into the English court, the meaning of costume and display, the power of fecundity and flirtation, and how Elizabeth herselflong viewed as the embodiment of feminismshared popular views of female inferiority and scorned and schemed against her underlings marriages and pregnancies

Table Of Contents

Mother -- 'The little whore' -- The royal nursery -- Stepmothers -- Governess -- Sister -- The queen's hive -- The Virgin Queen -- Cousins -- Faithful servants -- 'That she-wolf' -- The 'bosom serpent' -- Gloriana -- 'Witches' -- 'Flouting wenches' -- 'The sun now ready to set'

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