- Title: The First Elizabeth
- Author: Carolly Erickson
- Year Published: 1983 (St. Martin’s Griffin)
- Year Purchased: 1990’s
- Source: Antique Barn at The Ohio State Fair, Columbus, Ohio
- About: My favourite historical personage and all around kick-ass woman receives an above-average biographical treatment here.
- Motivation: See above. Also, I love my fellow redheads.
- Times Read: 2
- Random Excerpt/Page 187: “There were more festivities in the coming days. The queen went to Woolwich to launch a fine new ship for her navy, christened the ‘Elizabeth’, and returned to Greenwich to watch more military games-among them a “great casting of fire, and shooting of guns, till twelve at night.” The recent peace, these exercises proclaimed, had not dimmed England’s warlike spirit; let other nation’s take warning.”
- Happiness Scale: 10
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Love the books you’ve chosen for your ‘A Year in Books’, they all appeal to my literary taste! 🙂 I haven’t read The First Elizabeth; must definitely have a crack at it!
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Thanks! They come directly from my personal collection so we must have similar taste! I hope you enjoy ‘The First Elizabeth’. I think it is worth a read.
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