Books on Elizabethans & Elizabethan Life
Queen Elizabeth I
- Author: J.E.Neale
- Published: First Edition: Jonathan Cape 1934. Many subsequent editions.
- Details: Hard cover. 400pp. [Contents List]
- ISBN: 0712666117 (1998 Edition)
- Summary: Long held to be the definitive, comprehensive work on Elizabeth I's reign.
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*Elizabeth's London
- Author: Liza Picard
- Published: Phoenix Non-fiction/History.
- Details: Paperback (2004). 389pp.
- ISBN: 0753817578
- Summary: A fascinating and wide-ranging portrait of Elizabethan London and Londoners. Thoroughly researched but with an easy-going style, there's an intriguing nugget on almost every page.
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*Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth
- Author: Conyers Read
- Published: Oxford University Press 1925.
- Details: 3 Vols. Hard cover. 443pp, 433pp, ???pp.
- ISBN: 1593860005 (2003 Reprint)
- Contents: Vol I: Early life, French Embassy, Treaty of Blois, Massacre at St. Bartholomew's, French Affairs, Dutch Affairs 1573-78, Embassy to the Low Countries. Vol II: Alencon, Scottish Affairs 1570-85, Catholics and Puritans, Plots and Counter Plots. Vol III: Babington Plot, Beginning of War 1584-6, Scotland and France 1585-8, Armada, Year after Armada, English Maritime Enterprise, Private Affairs.
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Walsingham: Elizabethan Spymaster and Statesman
- Author: Alan Haynes
- Published: Sutton Publishing 2004.
- Details: Hard cover. 288pp.
- ISBN: 0750931221
- Summary: Acknowledges Read as a major source, but much condensed (not always for the better), and some minor updates to Read.
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Mr. Secretary Cecil and Queen Elizabeth
- Author: Conyers Read
- Published: Jonathan Cape 1955.
- Details: Hard cover. 510pp. [Extracts]
- ISBN: 0224610171 (1965)
- Contents: Queen of Scots (1570); Lord Burghley; Ridolfi Plot; French Marriage; Dutch Revolt; St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre; Scotland (1572-3); Anglican & Puritan; Theobalds; Huguenots; Low Countries (1576-8); Alencon; Jesuits; Low Countries (1581-4); Scotland (1581-5); Leicester; Mary Stuart's End; Henry of Navarre; Peace Overtures; Armada; Essex; Attack on Puritanism; 1596; Last Days.
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Sir Walter Raleigh
- Author: Robert Lacey
- Published: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1973, 1975, 2000.
- Details: Hard cover (1973), Paperback. 415pp.
- ISBN: 0297765574 (1973); 1842120891 (2000)
- Summary: Based on the chronology of Ralegh's own writings. Lacey is renowned for his original and painstaking research.
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Tudor England Observed: The World of John Stow
- Author: Barrett L. Beer
- Published: Sutton Publishing 1998.
- Details: Hard cover. 224pp.
- ISBN: 0750919434
- Summary: A view of Elizabethan life via extracts from Stow's Survey of London (1598)
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A Survey of London
- Author: John Stow
- Published: Sutton Publishing 2005.
- Details: Paperback. 442pp.
- ISBN: 0750942401
- Summary: A full edition of Stow's A Survey of London (1598), with a brief biography of the author, plus an introduction by Antonia Fraser.
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