Queen Elizabeth I (British Library Historic Lives)

144pp. Indexed. Illustrated with colour images drawn from the British Library's collection. Black cloth-covered boards (sharp, square, clean). Decorated endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (a tad faded along upper edge, lightly bumped at corners). A new biography of the Virgin Queen, from a leader scholar of the age, reveals a determined Queen, whose education and wit enabled her to succeed in turbulent times. Charting her life from childhood through relations with ministers and suitors, to her death and legacy, her is a picture of a smart women winning in a Tudor world.