Lytton Strachey
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Elizabeth and Essex (eBook, PDF)

A Tragic History

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In spellbinding prose, Lytton Strachey illuminates one of the most poignant affairs in history alongside the glamour and intrigue of the Elizabethan era.One of the most famous and tortured romances in history - between Elizabeth I, Queen of England, and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex - began in 1587, when she was fifty-three and he was nineteen. Their passionate affair continued for five years, until Essex was beheaded for treason in 1601.Alongside the doomed love affair, Strachey pens colourful portraits of the leading characters and influential figures of the time: Francis Bacon, Walter Rale...