Valerie Pearl, 3 May 1984
The Age of Elizabeth: England Under the Later Tudors 1547-1603 by D.M. Palliser.
Longman, 450 pp., £13.95, April 1983, 0 582 48580 0Show More After the Armada: Elizabethan England and the Struggle for Western Europe 1588-1595 by R.B. Wernham.
Oxford, 613 pp., £32.50, February 1984, 0 19 822753 1Show More The Defeat of the Spanish Armada by Garrett Mattingly.
Cape, 384 pp., £12.50, November 1983, 0 224 02070 6Show More The First Elizabeth by Carolly Erickson.
Macmillan, 446 pp., £9.95, October 1983, 0 333 36168 7Show More The Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland: Essays in Honour of Gordon Donaldson edited by Ian Cowan and Duncan Shaw.
Scottish Academic Press, 261 pp., £14.50, March 1983, 0 7073 0261 7Show More “... and to fascinate readers, as they have done ever since her day. The latest book on the Queen by Carolly Erickson gives us Gloriana down to her pock marks. If its motivation was not quite, as the blurb claims, ‘to electrify the senses’ of the reader, it was certainly the author’s ambition to produce a colourful biography of the Queen in her long ...”
