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Queen Elizabeth

Name: Queen Elizabeth
Author: Edward Spencer Beesly
ISBN: 9781411446755

by Edward Spencer Beesly

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Overview

This 1892 contribution to the Twelve English Statesmen series—and the only volume to feature a female subject—is a detailed biography that takes a chronological approach in charting Elizabeth's life against the political events that influenced it.

About the Author, Edward Spencer Beesly

Edward Spencer Beesly (1831-1915) was an English historian, editor, and advocate of positivism. He translated Auguste Comte into English and wrote a biography of him. Beesly also was an unsuccessful Liberal candidate to Parliament. He is best known today for his collected lectures on Roman history, Catiline, Clodius, Tiberius (1878).