Description: Strachey, Lytton. Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1928. First Edition; 8.75 by 6 inches; 296 pages including an index and several b/w plates; portraits of Queen Elizabeth I, Robert Devereux, Francis Bacon, Walter Raleigh, Robert Cecil and others; black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Lytton Strachey was a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group, best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. Note (from bloomsbury.com) 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. Their passionate affair continued for five years, until Essex was beheaded for treason in 1601. In a fast-paced succession of brilliantly-rendered scenes, Lytton Strachey portrays Elizabeth and Essex's compelling attraction for each other, their impassioned disagreements and their mutual struggle for power, which culminated so tragically - for both of them. Alongside the doomed love affair, Strachey pins colourful portraits of the leading characters and influential figures of the time: Francis Bacon, Walter Raleigh, Robert Cecil and other members of her glittering court who fought to assert themselves in a kingdom and a country defined by Elizabeth's incomparable reign. Lytton Strachey here illuminates, in spellbinding prose, one of the most poignant affairs in history alongside the glamour and intrigue of the Elizabethan era. and other members of her glittering court who fought to assert themselves in a kingdom and a country defined by Elizabeth's incomparable reign. Lytton Strachey here illuminates, in spellbinding prose, one of the most poignant affairs in history alongside the glamour and intrigue of the Elizabethan era. Please see the pictures for more information and detail as to contents and condition.
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Binding: Cloth
Place of Publication: New York
Signed: No
Title: Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace
Modified Item: No
Subject: History
California Prop 65 Warning: none
Year Printed: 1928
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Author: Lytton Strachey
Region: Europe
Personalized: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Elizabethan England
