Queen Elizabeth I

By J.E. Neale

Long cosidered the definitive biography of the great Tudor Queen, this scholarly and immensely readable book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography and hs been translated into nine languages.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Release date: Aug 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9780897336727

Reviews for Queen Elizabeth I

[antiquary_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Considered a classic work in its day; but now, if I understand the current writers correctly, as overrating the role of parliament (which was Neale's specialty)

[sgerbic · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Reviewed May 1998 My second book dealing with the life history of QE1. Many areas were right on the mark with the first book, this author decided to expound on different areas, ie...Essex, wars and Drake. he tended to downplay Leicester and Cecil. this book was used as a textbook at one time and someone highlighted throughout. I found myself looking forward to those highlighted entries. Dry in parts due to the large quantity of names and places but overall very uninformative. I think the author could have used dates and ages much more often to show passage of time. As your reading suddenly you find that QE1 is an old woman. Also deaths of important figures just seem to happen suddenly and without much notice, make you wonder what happened too...