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The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age by Christopher Hibbert
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The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age

by Christopher Hibbert

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This is a very well balanced study of Elizabeth. I appreciate any work about Elizabeth that informs us about more than just her love life and struggle to stay on the throne. She was also a great queen in how she ran the country. The author does spend time on the less perfect parts of Elizabeth's personality, her vanity and cheapness. Very interesting. ( )
  jeanphilli | May 16, 2009 |
Pikced it up after watching the PBS/BBC series. The PBS series was better in the first half, but the book was better in the second.

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  mitchellirons | Aug 12, 2008 |
The well told story of a woman who became great merely by trying to survive. ( )
  hellbent | Jul 4, 2006 |
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Hibbert's masterful biography introduces a new generation of readers to perhaps the greatest monarch in history. A genius, beauty, manipulator, and leader, Elizabeth I has fascinated history buffs, anglophiles, and feminists for centuries. Black-and-white and color inserts.

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