Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History

Author: Lytton Strachey
Publisher: Penguin Books, 1971
Condition: Softcover, yellowed pages, annotations on first page, interior clean
Dramatizes one of the most famous and most baffling romances in history -- between Elizabeth I, Queen of England, and Robert Devereux, the vital, handsome Earl of Essex. It began in May of 1587 when she was 53 and Essex was not yet 20 and continued until 1601.