Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MAYBE it can be done. They tell us, now that Queen Elizabeth was a man, and hid it from everybody but a chosen few for a matter of half a century. This book, evidently, is an expose of the way she did it, except that, by reverse English, the girl in the book was really a woman...
...Portrait Gallery. Elizabeth...
...spite of superficial resemblances, she was the very opposite of her most dangerous enemy-the weaving spider of the Escurial. Both were masters of dissimulation and lovers of delay; but the leaden foot of Philip was the symptom of a dying organism, while Elizabeth temporized for the contrary reason-because vitality can afford to wait. The fierce old hen sat still, brooding over the English nation, whose pullulating energies were coming swiftly to ripeness and unity under her wings. She sat still; but every feather bristled; she was tremendously alive...
Virgin Queen-delicately he even grants her her virginity. But to Lytton Strachey no meretricious novelty is necessary, such is the compelling freshness of his interpretation, and such the uncanny vitality of his art. Elizabeth has always made engaging reading, but from Strachey's pages she emerges in all her living bizarre glamor to fascinate a jaded 20th century as surely as she fascinated the sensitive enthusiasts of her day. And it is not the youthful Elizabeth, but Elizabeth in her triumphant old age-her enemies outplayed and outlived; her darlings still vying for her favors. In vivid galaxy...
...study of Queen Victoria, Strachey crystallized a period of history; in his portrait of Elizabeth he creates a symbol of sovereignty, withal flesh and blood...