![]() ![]() These five books are golden keys, so here are some maps to take readers back to ancient Israel, Saxon England, Elizabethan England, Colonial Massachusetts, and Paris in the Roaring '20s.Īlice Hoffman and Margaret George include bibliographies in their novels and websites. I see books as the keys that unlock our curiosity. When I read a historical novel that really resonates with me, I want to know more about the time, the country and the characters who actually lived. But it is Elizabeth who charms, infuriates and mesmerizes, Elizabeth who lingers in the reader's imagination. ![]() So many fascinating characters flit through these pages - Dudley, Essex, Lettice, Robert Cecil, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, Christopher Marlowe, and Lettice's lover, perhaps the only one who can match Elizabeth's dazzling intellect, a playwright named William Shakespeare. We come to appreciate her strengths and forgive her flaws, marveling that she survived a hellish childhood and adolescence that would have broken lesser woman. We grieve with her over the love of her life, Robert Dudley, and feel the heat of her jealousy of her cousin, Lettice Knollys. We are with her when she faces the greatest crisis of her reign, the threat posed by the Spanish Armada. Elizabeth Tudor was one of history's most intriguing, intelligent and enigmatic women, and Margaret George does her justice in her splendid novel, Elizabeth I, capturing the mercurial, strong-willed queen in all her neurotic brilliance. ![]()
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