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DescriptionPenelope Devereux was the most beautiful woman of her generation and muse to countless poets and musicians, yet her story ended in tragedy: she died in disgrace on July 7th, 1607, a widow, outcast from court, and stripped of all her titles. Amanda Foreman's spellbinding biography charts Penelope's rise and fall, over a court career that spanned great events from the execution of Mary Queen of Scots to the Gunpowder Plot. The Lady Penelope is a dramatic, visual, emotional and ultimately tragic tale set against the character of Queen Elizabeth I and the staged pageantry of her Court. Author descriptionSally Varlow is the author of A Reader's Guide to Writers' Britain (Deutsch) and also writes for UK national daily newspapers The Times, Daily Telegraph, The Observer and the Sunday Express. She lives in Chailey, Sussex. Table of contentsSection 1: Childhood and Ancestry; Prologue: An evening, early in July 1607.; Chapter 1: Death and dishonour, July 6, 1607; Chapters 2-11: The legacy of "the other Boleyn girl" and Henry VIII; Section II: Court life, marriage and politics 1581 - 90; Section III: Love at Last 1590 - 1601; Section IV: Triumph and Tragedy 1601-1607; Epilogue. |