Margaret Irwin's fine book on the life and times of the girl who was to become England's Queen Elizabeth has been made into a remarkably engrossing motion picture. Young Bess is a romantic drama told ...
Originally published in 1944, the first installment of Irwin's classic Elizabeth I Trilogy returns to enthrall new readers fascinated by the Elizabethian period. Brimming with vivid period details, ...
Young Bess (MGM) is an ideal coronation-year movie. Its heroine is Elizabeth I (1533-1603), who, like the present Elizabeth, became Queen of England at he age of 25. Queen Bess, based on Margaret ...
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich ...
THIS is a brilliant historical novel, and more accurate as a historical reconstruction than Lytton Strachey’s Elizabeth and Essex. Elizabeth’s love for Thomas Seymour is treated as fiction but is not ...
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