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A Year in Books/Day 60: The First Elizabeth

Posted on February 29, 2012 by maedez

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• 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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