Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History by Lytton Strachey

Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History

Lytton Strachey

216 pages first pub 1928 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative medium-paced
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Torrid, tortured, and notorious -as romances go- indisputably was the affair between Elizabeth I, Queen of England, and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. It started in 1587, when she was fifty-three and he was merely nineteen. The affair lasted five...

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