Queen Bess

Author : Doris L. Rich
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588345122
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queen Bess written by Doris L. Rich and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the brief but intense life of Bessie Coleman, America's first African American woman aviator. Born in 1892 in Atlanta, Texas, she became known as “Queen Bess,” a barnstormer and flying-circus performer who defied the strictures of race, sex, and society in pursuit of a dream.

Author : Diane Stanley
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0688179614
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Queen Bess written by Diane Stanley and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2001-08-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was a queen whose strong will, shrewd diplomacy, religious tolerance and great love for her subjects won the hearts of her people and the admiration of her enemies. Elizabeth was born into an age of religious strife, in which plots and factions were everywhere and private beliefs could be punished by death. When she became queen, her counselors urged her to marry quickly and turn the responsibilities of governing over to her husband, But she outwitted them by stalling, changing her mind; and playing one side against another, as she steered her country to the glorious era of peace and security that would be called the Elizabethan Age. Elizabeth's forceful personality, colorful court, and devoted subjects come vividly to life in this stellar picture-book biography. When it was first published, Good Queen Bess was named a Notable Book in the Field of Social Studies, an American Library Association Notable Book, a Booklist Editors' Choice, an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, and an IRA Teachers' Choice. In this welcome reissue, celebrated author and illustrator Diane Stanley and her husband, Peter Vennema, paint an impressive portrait of the remarkable queen who loved her people so dearly and ruled them so well.

Author : Jennifer Preston
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150403130X
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queen Bess written by Jennifer Preston and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “fascinating” biography details the rise of the first Jewish Miss America, TV star, and political player—and the scandal that toppled her career (The New York Times). When Bess Myerson, the Bronx-born daughter of Jewish immigrants, was crowned Miss America in 1945, she was determined to break down gender barriers and be more than a beauty queen. Amid rampant anti-Semitism, she took advantage of her reign to call for an end to bigotry and hate. Then, after more than two decades as a glamorous television personality, Myerson took on corporate America, applying her celebrity as a consumer advocate to become an influential New York City political figure credited with helping elect Mayor Edward I. Koch. But behind the glittering public image, Myerson struggled with unhappy marriages. Then, in her early sixties, she found love with a much younger married man. The romance put her at the center of a political corruption scandal that led to federal charges brought by US Attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani, ending the reign of Queen Bess, New York’s favorite daughter, after more than forty years. Award-winning investigative journalist Jennifer Preston reveals Myerson’s fascinating life story in this engaging biography. Featuring interviews with Myerson herself and a new introduction from the author, Queen Bess remains the most comprehensive account of this ambitious and talented woman who inspired, entertained, and shocked millions.

Author : Peter Lake
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198753993
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bad Queen Bess? written by Peter Lake and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title explores the role of plot talk, conspiracy theory, and libellous secret history during the Elizabethan regime, analysing the back and forth between Catholic critics and William Cecil and his circle, and the effect this had on the political, cultural, intellectual, and religious history of the time, both in England, and in a wider European context.

Author : Magaret Irwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book YOUNG BESS written by Magaret Irwin and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Lake
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191068659
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bad Queen Bess? written by Peter Lake and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad Queen Bess? analyses the back and forth between the Elizabethan regime and various Catholic critics, who, from the early 1570s to the early 1590s, sought to characterise that regime as a conspiracy of evil counsel. Through a genre novel - the libellous secret history - to English political discourse, various (usually anonymous) Catholic authors claimed to reveal to the public what was 'really happening' behind the curtain of official lies and disinformation with which the clique of evil counsellors at the heart of the Elizabethan state habitually cloaked their sinister manoeuvres. Elements within the regime, centred on William Cecil and his circle, replied to these assaults with their own species of plot talk and libellous secret history, specialising in conspiracy-driven accounts of the Catholic, Marian, and then, latterly, Spanish threats. Peter Lake presents a series of (mutually constitutive) moves and counter moves, in the course of which the regime's claims to represent a form of public political virtue, to speak for the commonweal and true religion, elicited from certain Catholic critics a simply inverted rhetoric of private political vice, persecution, and tyranny. The resulting exchanges are read not only as a species of 'political thought', but as a way of thinking about politics as process and of distinguishing between 'politics' and 'religion'. They are also analysed as modes of political communication and pitch-making - involving print, circulating manuscripts, performance, and rumour - and thus as constitutive of an emergent mode of 'public politics' and perhaps of a 'post reformation public sphere'. While the focus is primarily English, the origins and imbrication of these texts within, and their direct address to, wider European events and audiences is always present. The aim is thus to contribute simultaneously to the political, cultural, intellectual, and religious histories of the period.

Author : Edwin Paxton Hood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good Old Times of Queen Bess written by Edwin Paxton Hood and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Martha Sherwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mirror of Maidens in the Days of Queen Bess written by Mary Martha Sherwood and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anna R. Beer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Just Desire written by Anna R. Beer and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young, beautiful, and connected by blood to the most powerful families in England, Bess Throckmorton had as much influence over Queen Elizabeth I as any woman in the realm—but she risked everything to marry the most charismatic man of the day. The secret marriage between Bess and the Queen’s beloved Sir Walter Ralegh cost both of them their fortunes, their freedom, and very nearly their lives. Yet it was Bess, resilient, passionate, and politically shrewd, who would live to restore their name and reclaim her political influence. In this dazzling biography, Bess Ralegh finally emerges from her husband’s shadow to stand as a complex, commanding figure in her own right. Writing with grace and drama, Anna Beer brings Bess to life as a woman, a wife and mother, an intimate friend of poets and courtiers, and a skilled political infighter in Europe’s most powerful and most dangerous court. The only daughter of an ambitious aristocratic family, Bess was thrust at a tender age into the very epicenter of royal power when her parents secured her the position of Elizabeth’s Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber. Bess proved to be a natural player on this stage of extravagant mythmaking and covert sexual politics, until she fell in love with the Queen’s Captain of the Guard, the handsome, virile, meteorically rising Ralegh. But their secret marriage, swiftly followed by the birth of their son, would have grave consequences for both of them. Brooking the Queen’s wrath and her husband’s refusal to acknowledge their marriage, Bess brilliantly stage-managed her social and political rehabilitation and emerged from prison as the leader of a brilliant, fast-living aristocratic set. She survived personal tragedy, the ruinous global voyages launched by her husband, and the vicious plots of high-placed enemies. Though Raleigh in the end fell afoul of court intrigue, Bess lived on into the reign of James I as a woman of hard-won wisdom and formidable power. With compelling historical insight, Anna Beer recreates here the vibrant pageant of Elizabethan England—the brilliant wit and vicious betrayals, the new discoveries and old rivalries, the violence and fierce sexuality of life at court. Peopled by poets and princes, spanning the reigns of two monarchs, moving between the palaces of London and the manor house outside the capital, My Just Desire is the portrait of a remarkable woman who lived at the center of an extraordinary time.

Author : Philippa Gregory
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416549129
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Queen written by Philippa Gregory and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a tale inspired by the story of Mary, Queen of Scots, in a work that follows the doomed monarch's long imprisonment in the household of the Earl of Shrewsbury and his spying wife, Bess.