Lives of the Queens of England Volume 7

The seventh volume of Agnes Strickland's monumental history traverses one of English history's most dramatic eras through the lives of two extraordinary queens. Here is Elizabeth I in her final years: the Armada defeated but the crown heavy with the burdens of succession, the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, and the heartbreak of Essex's rebellion. Then comes Anne of Denmark, the first Stuart queen consort, whose patronage of the arts and complicated relationship with James I helped shape the Jacobean court. The Stricklands, writing in the nineteenth century, pioneered in using sources that had gathered dust for centuries. Their work laid foundations for all subsequent biographies of these women, even as modern scholarship has revised some of their conclusions. This volume captures the twilight of the Elizabethan age and the uneasy dawn of the Stuarts, told through the women who witnessed it from the throne.