Young Bess
- 264pages
- 10 heures de lecture
'I doubt if anyone could create more perfectly than Miss Irwin, the illusion of a vanished age.' - Observer
Margaret Irwin Livres
Irwin était une romancière reconnue pour sa fiction historique, méticuleusement documentée et parfois déchirante. Elle écrivit avec passion sur la guerre civile anglaise, captivant des générations avec le malheureux mais charismatique comte de Montrose. Son approche littéraire donnait vie aux événements et aux personnages du passé avec une profonde compréhension des motivations humaines et du contexte historique.
Good Queen Bess - 2: Elizabeth, Captive Princess
- 333pages
- 12 heures de lecture
A brother dead; a cousin executed; imprisonment in the Tower--in the aftermath of Edward VI's demise England is in turmoil and young Elizabeth's position is precarious. But while she is prey to the Queen's jealous suspicions, Queen Mary is fading; while Elizabeth is twenty and healthy. The country looks to the young princess for its future. Imperious, high spirited, fighting for her life, Elizabeth already shows the diplomacy, the baffling changes of mood, and the power to win men's devotion for which she would be famous as Queen. This is the second book in the series started in Queen Bess.
Good Queen Bess - 3: Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain
- 331pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Young Elizabeth, half-sister of Queen Mary has a hazardous path ahead of her. Reports of her as a heretic, a rebel and a potential enemy with 'a spirit full of enchantment' have reached the queen's reluctant bridegroom, Prince of Spain. Elizabeth must advance warily towards her destiny, amid courtly machinations, running the gauntlet between Bloody Mary's jealousy and Philip's uneasy ardor... This is the final volume installment of the evocative trilogy charting young Elizabeth's precarious path to the throne.