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Elizabeth and Mary audiobook
- By: Jane Dunn
- Narrator: Donada Peters
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Royalty
- Length: 19 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2003
- Language: English
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Elizabeth and Mary Audiobook Summary
The first dual biography of two of the world’s most remarkable women—Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots—by one of Britain’s “best biographers” (The Sunday Times).
In a rich and riveting narrative, Jane Dunn reveals the extraordinary rivalry between the regal cousins. It is the story of two queens ruling on one island, each with a claim to the throne of England, each embodying dramatically opposing qualities of character, ideals of womanliness (and views of sexuality) and divinely ordained kingship.
As regnant queens in an overwhelmingly masculine world, they were deplored for their femaleness, compared unfavorably with each other and courted by the same men. By placing their dynamic and ever-changing relationship at the center of the book, Dunn illuminates their differences. Elizabeth, inheriting a weak, divided country coveted by all the Catholic monarchs of Europe, is revolutionary in her insistence on ruling alone and inspired in her use of celibacy as a political tool—yet also possessed of a deeply feeling nature. Mary is not the romantic victim of history but a courageous adventurer with a reckless heart and a magnetic influence over men and women alike. Vengeful against her enemies and the more ruthless of the two queens, she is untroubled by plotting Elizabeth’s murder. Elizabeth, however, is driven to anguish at finally having to sanction Mary’s death for treason. Working almost exclusively from contemporary letters and writings, Dunn explores their symbiotic, though never face-to-face, relationship and the power struggle that raged between them.
A story of sex, power and politics, of a rivalry unparalleled in the pages of English history, of two charismatic women—told in a masterful double biography.
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Elizabeth and Mary Full Details
| Narrator | Donada Peters |
| Length | 19 hours 49 minutes |
| Author | Jane Dunn |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 01, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781415901939 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Elizabeth and Mary is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: royal family gifts, queen elizabeth gifts, european history, english history, england, history of england, London, King, Rainbow Queen, Our Rainbow Queen, Elizabeth the Queen, the crown, crown, Palace, United Kingdom, United Kingdom history, UK, UK history, the Queen, Queen Elizabeth, queen elizabeth biography, queen elizabeth book, elizabeth i, royal family books, elizabeth ii, biography, royals, world history, biographies, feminism, biographies and memoirs, autobiographies, biographies of famous people, royal family, Biography & Autobiography, Royalty, History, Europe, Great Britain, Biography & Autobiography, Women The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Royalty
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The publisher of the Elizabeth and Mary is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781415901939.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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