Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History by Lytton Strachey

Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History

Lytton Strachey

296 pages first pub 1928 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative medium-paced
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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 53 and he was 19. Their passionate affair continued for five years, until Essex was beh...

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