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Condition
Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
ISBN
9780345452900
Book Title
My Just Desire : the Life of Bess Raleigh, Wife to Sir Walter
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Item Length
8.5 in
Publication Year
2003
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.1 in
Author
Anna Beer
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Topic
Women, Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603), Europe / Great Britain / General, Historical, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Item Width
5.9 in
Number of Pages
320 Pages
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0345452909
ISBN-13
9780345452900
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2485566

Product Key Features

Book Title
My Just Desire : the Life of Bess Raleigh, Wife to Sir Walter
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603), Europe / Great Britain / General, Historical, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Anna Beer
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.9 in

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Trade
LCCN
2003-051845
Reviews
"The extraordinary story of Bess Ralegh, wife to Sir Walter, has been overlooked for four centuries. My Just Desire is a riveting tale of intrigue, passion, skull-duggery and treachery. It provides a fascinating glimpse into the tumultuous life of one of Elizabethan England's most beguiling women." -Giles Milton, author of Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America and Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened the East Praise for My Just Desire "Anna Beer has lovingly restored Bess Ralegh to her rightful place among Elizabethan heroines. Brave, energetic, and resourceful to the point of audacity-Bess was a successful gambler against the odds. She rescued the reputation of her own husband-Sir Walter Ralegh-and now, four centuries later, Anna Beer has returned the favor." -AMANDA FOREMAN Author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire "Beer has vividly recreated the period and added a wealth of wonderful detail . . . A gem of a book." -ALISON WEIR Author of Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley "The extraordinary story of Bess Ralegh, wife to Sir Walter, has been overlooked for four centuries. My Just Desire is a riveting tale of intrigue, passion, skullduggery and treachery. It provides a fascinating glimpse into the tumultuous life of one of Elizabethan England's most beguiling women." -GILES MILTON Author of Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America "Energetic and ambitious, Bess Raleigh was wife to the courtier-pirate-poet Sir Walter. Her tumultuous story is set against the plots and counterplots in the final years of the ageing Queen Elizabeth I, who presided over a glittering, corrupt and disintegrating court in which the Raleghs were always in favor or danger. Bess and her world come vividly to life in this fast-moving tale of a woman who had to be wife, mother, prisoner and politician." -JANET TODD Author of Mary Wollstonecraft, "The extraordinary story of Bess Ralegh, wife to Sir Walter, has been overlooked for four centuries. My Just Desire is a riveting tale of intrigue, passion, skull-duggery and treachery. It provides a fascinating glimpse into the tumultuous life of one of Elizabethan England's most beguiling women." - Giles Milton , author of Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America and Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened the East Praise for My Just Desire "Anna Beer has lovingly restored Bess Ralegh to her rightful place among Elizabethan heroines. Brave, energetic, and resourceful to the point of audacity-Bess was a successful gambler against the odds. She rescued the reputation of her own husband-Sir Walter Ralegh-and now, four centuries later, Anna Beer has returned the favor." -AMANDA FOREMAN Author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire "Beer has vividly recreated the period and added a wealth of wonderful detail . . . A gem of a book." -ALISON WEIR Author of Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley "The extraordinary story of Bess Ralegh, wife to Sir Walter, has been overlooked for four centuries. My Just Desire is a riveting tale of intrigue, passion, skullduggery and treachery. It provides a fascinating glimpse into the tumultuous life of one of Elizabethan England's most beguiling women." -GILES MILTON Author of Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America "Energetic and ambitious, Bess Raleigh was wife to the courtier-pirate-poet Sir Walter. Her tumultuous story is set against the plots and counterplots in the final years of the ageing Queen Elizabeth I, who presided over a glittering, corrupt and disintegrating court in which the Raleghs were always in favor or danger. Bess and her world come vividly to life in this fast-moving tale of a woman who had to be wife, mother, prisoner and politician." -JANET TODD Author of Mary Wollstonecraft, "The extraordinary story of Bess Ralegh, wife to Sir Walter, has been overlooked for four centuries.My Just Desireis a riveting tale of intrigue, passion, skull-duggery and treachery. It provides a fascinating glimpse into the tumultuous life of one of Elizabethan England's most beguiling women." -Giles Milton, author ofBig Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in AmericaandSamurai William: The Englishman Who Opened the East Praise forMy Just Desire "Anna Beer has lovingly restored Bess Ralegh to her rightful place among Elizabethan heroines. Brave, energetic, and resourceful to the point of audacity-Bess was a successful gambler against the odds. She rescued the reputation of her own husband-Sir Walter Ralegh-and now, four centuries later, Anna Beer has returned the favor." -AMANDA FOREMAN Author ofGeorgiana: Duchess of Devonshire "Beer has vividly recreated the period and added a wealth of wonderful detail . . . A gem of a book." -ALISON WEIR Author ofMary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley "The extraordinary story of Bess Ralegh, wife to Sir Walter, has been overlooked for four centuries.My Just Desireis a riveting tale of intrigue, passion, skullduggery and treachery. It provides a fascinating glimpse into the tumultuous life of one of Elizabethan England's most beguiling women." -GILES MILTON Author ofBig Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America "Energetic and ambitious, Bess Raleigh was wife to the courtier-pirate-poet Sir Walter. Her tumultuous story is set against the plots and counterplots in the final years of the ageing Queen Elizabeth I, who presided over a glittering, corrupt and disintegrating court in which the Raleghs were always in favor or danger. Bess and her world come vividly to life in this fast-moving tale of a woman who had to be wife, mother, prisoner and politician." -JANET TODD Author ofMary Wollstonecraft
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
942.05/5/092 B
Synopsis
Young, beautiful, and connected by blood to the most powerful families in England, Bess Throckmorton had as much influence over Queen Elizabeth I as any woman in the realm-but she risked everything to marry the most charismatic man of the day. The secret marriage between Bess and the Queen's beloved Sir Walter Ralegh cost both of them their fortunes, their freedom, and very nearly their lives. Yet it was Bess, resilient, passionate, and politically shrewd, who would live to restore their name and reclaim her political influence. In this dazzling biography, Bess Ralegh finally emerges from her husband's shadow to stand as a complex, commanding figure in her own right. Writing with grace and drama, Anna Beer brings Bess to life as a woman, a wife and mother, an intimate friend of poets and courtiers, and a skilled political infighter in Europe's most powerful and most dangerous court. The only daughter of an ambitious aristocratic family, Bess was thrust at a tender age into the very epicenter of royal power when her parents secured her the position of Elizabeth's Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber. Bess proved to be a natural player on this stage of extravagant mythmaking and covert sexual politics, until she fell in love with the Queen's Captain of the Guard, the handsome, virile, meteorically rising Ralegh. But their secret marriage, swiftly followed by the birth of their son, would have grave consequences for both of them. Brooking the Queen's wrath and her husband's refusal to acknowledge their marriage, Bess brilliantly stage-managed her social and political rehabilitation and emerged from prison as the leader of a brilliant, fast-living aristocratic set. She survived personal tragedy, the ruinous global voyages launched by her husband, and the vicious plots of high-placed enemies. Though Raleigh in the end fell afoul of court intrigue, Bess lived on into the reign of James I as a woman of hard-won wisdom and formidable power. With compelling historical insight, Anna Beer recreates here the vibrant pageant of Elizabethan England-the brilliant wit and vicious betrayals, the new discoveries and old rivalries, the violence and fierce sexuality of life at court. Peopled by poets and princes, spanning the reigns of two monarchs, moving between the palaces of London and the manor house outside the capital, My Just Desire is the portrait of a remarkable woman who lived at the center of an extraordinary time.
LC Classification Number
DA86.22.R197B44 2003

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