Turncoats and Opportunists
Alexandra Walsham: Francis Walsingham, 5 July 2012
The Queen’s Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I
by John Cooper.
Faber, 400 pp., £9.99, July 2012,978 0 571 21827 1 Show More
by John Cooper.
Faber, 400 pp., £9.99, July 2012,
“... in 1566 to the widow Ursula Worseley, with whom he had two children. His sole surviving daughter, Frances, married the poet and Protestant courtier Sir Philip Sidney. Cooper acknowledges the problems these gaps in the record pose to a biographer, but doesn’t shy away from sifting Walsingham’s motives and gauging the nature and depth of his religious ... ”