Elizabeth and Mary Cousins, Rivals, Queens

Name: Elizabeth and Mary Cousins, Rivals, Queens
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ISBN: 9780375708206

ISBN-10: 0375708200

ISBN-13: 9780375708206

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Authors: Jane Dunn

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The political and religious conflicts between Queen Elizabeth I and the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, have for centuries captured our imagination and inspired memorable dramas played out on stage, screen, and in opera. But few books have brought to life more vividly than Jane Dunn’s Elizabeth and Mary the exquisite texture of two women’s rivalry, spurred on by the ambitions and machinations of the forceful men who surrounded them. The drama has terrific resonance even now as women continue to struggle in their bid for executive power. Against the backdrop of sixteenth-century England, Scotland, and France, Dunn paints portraits of a pair of protagonists whose formidable strengths were…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/25/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.16" wide x 7.99" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Described by the Sunday Times as 'one of our best biographers', Jane Dunn writes about women and their relationships, and sisters in particular. Her books include a biography of the sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell and the bestseller Elizabeth & Mary, which looks at the lives of the cousin queens Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Bath with her husband the writer and linguist, Nicholas Ostler.