The Wrong Sex
Felipe Fernández-Armesto, 7 October 1993
Isabel the Queen: Life and Times
by Peggy Liss.
Oxford, 398 pp., £19.95, January 1993,0 19 507356 8 Show More
by Peggy Liss.
Oxford, 398 pp., £19.95, January 1993,
“... source of biographer’s copy – a selfish and libidinous vixen. Isabella the Catholic, who is Peggy Liss’s subject, seems boring by comparison: an exemplary wife and mother, virginal before marriage and chaste within it, who inspired comparisons with St Helena and the Virgin Mary. Yet the two Isabels are probably more alike than has been ... ”