Author: Sylvia Schwetz
Publisher: novum publishing
ISBN: 1642686611
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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Elizabeth Baker appears to be a completely normal child who enjoys a sheltered and happy childhood and youth with her father. She is ambitious and hard-working and resolutely pursues her goal of becoming a doctor, which she achieves. Her father is always by her side and supports her in all her endeavors. Elizabeth is happy. The only thing that puzzles her one day is that she can't remember her childhood or her mother. And why does her father sometimes behave so strangely? Wasn't there someone scurrying through his study that she was never allowed to enter? But he has an explanation for everything.
Author: Michelle Rowen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 080272194X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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Fresh from finding out she is a demon princess and meeting her father for the first time, Nikki Donovan is looking forward to getting back to her regular high school life. But then Rhys, the handsome teenage king of the faery realm, enrolls at her school as a "foreign exchange student." Her conflicted feelings for Rhys and her boyfriend are getting in the way of her new relationship with the Shadow-creature Michael. But this love triangle from hell isn't even Nikki's biggest problem: There's a new prophecy that claims she will destroy all the demon and human worlds. Her best friend Melinda just might be a demon-slayer-in-training. Throw in a field trip to none other than the Underworld itself . . . and Nikki's going to be hoping for a rain check on more than just her homework! Look out for the other book in the Demon Princess series, Reign or Shine!
Author: Cynthia A Sears
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525587269
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Vanished Lady Eve has disappeared without a trace. A group of rescuers heads south, thinking her kidnapped by the hostile Kingdom of Vrotus. However, when a mysterious fae appears at Dragon Hill, Elizabeth realizes that what’s at stake is not just her mother’s fate, but the fate of all the kingdoms.
Author: Margaret Irwin
Publisher: Leicester : Ulverscroft
ISBN: 9780854566402
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
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Based on the early life of Elizabeth I.
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Author: Robin Maxwell
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1611457416
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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A book of passion, of sixteenth-century England, of greed and political ambition unto death. Historians and novelists have written extensively about the various aspects of Queen Elizabeth I’s long, rich, and tumultuous life. No one has ever given us a fully realized portrait of the greatest English monarch as a young girl. Concluding her brilliant Tudor trilogy, Robin Maxwell enters this new territory by introducing Elizabeth as a romantic and vulnerable teenager dangerously awakening to sexuality with the wrong man. Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, was banished from the court at the age of two when her father sent Anne Boleyn to her death. Seven years later, when the gracious and immensely wealthy Catherine Parr became Henry’s sixth wife, she softened the King’s heart and Elizabeth was readmitted to the court. For the next four years the young princess enjoyed a warm friendship with Catherine and a new sense of belonging. In 1547, Great Harry is dead, and Elizabeth’s nine-year-old brother Edward VI is king in name only. Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, has boldly named himself Lord Protector and effectively seized power. Meanwhile the duke’s equally ambitious brother Thomas, realizing he cannot wrest control directly, has deployed his greatest talent—his charm and sexual magnetism—to utmost effect by persuading Henry’s widow Catherine to marry him. His real goal, however, is the late king’s daughter: Elizabeth herself. And so the game begins, one with rules that only reckless, amoral Thomas Seymour understands. Into this intrigue are drawn both those who love Elizabeth and those who wish her ill. In order to escape certain doom and achieve independence, Elizabeth must stand alone.
Author: Toni Reed
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184703
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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The hero of the story is a demonic lover—dark, handsome, mysterious, and dangerously seductive. The heroine—beautiful, and innocent—willingly becomes his victim and is destroyed by him. This story of demon-lover and victim, always charged with passion, has been told over and over, from Greek mythology through contemporary fiction and films. Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction is the first historical and structural exploration of the demon-lover motif, with emphasis on major works of British fiction from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries; it will interest those concerned with gender role conflicts in literature and with the mutual influence of oral and written texts of folklore and formal literature.
Author: Katherine Eggert
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812292618
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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For most Renaissance English thinkers, queenship was a catastrophe, a political accident that threatened to emasculate an entire nation. But some English poets and playwrights proved more inventive in their responses to female authority. In Showing Like a Queen, Katherine Eggert argues that Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton turned the political problem of queenship to their advantage by using it as an occasion to experiment with new literary genres. Unlike other critics who have argued that a queen provoked only anxiety and defensiveness in her male subjects, Eggert demonstrates that even after her death Elizabeth I's forty-five-year reign enabled writers to entertain the fantasy of a counterpatriarchal realm. Eggert traces a literary history of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in which the destabilizing anomaly of female rule enables Spenser to reshape the genre of epic romance and gives Shakespeare scope to create the ruptured dynastic epic of the history plays, the psychologized tragedy of Hamlet, and the feminized tragedies of "Antony and Cleopatra" and "The Winter's Tale." Turning to the second half of the seventeenth century, Eggert reveals how even after more than sixty years of male governance, Milton bases his marital epic Paradise Lost upon the formulae of queenship.
Author: Aysha Pollnitz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316298795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463
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In the sixteenth century, Erasmus of Rotterdam led a humanist campaign to deter European princes from vainglorious warfare by giving them liberal educations. His prescriptions for the study of classical authors and scripture transformed the upbringing of Tudor and Stuart royal children. Rather than emphasising the sword, the educations of Henry VIII, James VI and I, and their successors prioritised the pen. In a period of succession crises, female sovereignty, and minority rulers, liberal education played a hitherto unappreciated role in reshaping the political and religious thought and culture of early modern Britain. This book explores how a humanist curriculum gave princes the rhetorical skills, biblical knowledge, and political impetus to assert the royal supremacy over their subjects' souls. Liberal education was meant to prevent over-mighty monarchy but in practice it taught kings and queens how to extend their authority over church and state.
Author: Geoffrey Trease
Publisher: Hodder Wayland
ISBN: 9780750021906
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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