Author : Elizabeth Jenkins
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781842125601
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Elizabeth and Leicester by : Elizabeth Jenkins
Download or read book Elizabeth and Leicester written by Elizabeth Jenkins and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his own way Leicester was as mysterious a person as the Queen. His influence on her, from the beginning of her reign until his death in 1588, was constant and incalculable ¿ greater than that of anyone else save Burleigh ¿ though he was generally unpopular among his fellow courtiers, detested by the populace as a whole, and lampooned by the writers of the day. Leicester¿s complex character, his lavish entertaining, his encouragement of the arts, his day-by-day activities ¿ as courtier, Master of the Queen¿s Horse, Chancellor of Oxford, leader of the English forces in the war of the Netherlands against Spain ¿ are all brought vividly to life. First published in 1961.