OL4472064W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 96.15 Pages 664 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 650 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0370308743 Novel Prize and the Betty Trask Award, Susan Kay gives us Elizabeth the woman: proud. Urn:lcp:legacy00susa:lcpdf:9590c710-5e35-4ce6-8673-8d687c08e97d Beloved for its stunning storytelling, Legacy offers an exquisite. Literary Guild main selection.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:15:25 Boxid IA155418 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Date-raw April 1987 Donor It is, however, the depiction of a woman of whom ""half the wives of England were jealous'' that lingers. All of the Court's intriguing personnelfrom the ubiquitous, conniving Cecils to the presumptive upstart, Essexare drawn with care the turbulence of the period, filled with violent deaths, challenges from abroad, pragmatic liaisons, is conveyed with verisimilitude the rich tapesty of the Tudor ascendancy is woven with colorful threads. In the person of Robert Dudley, later Leicester, she creates a romantic fulcrum for Elizabeth's womanliness, delineating the childhood affection for Dudley that flowered in clandestine liaison and may be the closest Elizabeth came to a loving relationship. Freely mixing the verifiable with the imagined, Kay traces Elizabeth's rise from lonely childhood to lonely eminence. England's greatest Queen is presented from an intriguing psychological viewpointElizabeth I's need for men and the bondage endured by those she chose. Kay's prodigious research buttresses this robust historical romance, winner of Britain's Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize and the Betty Trask Prize for a first novel.
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