“Tracy Borman is one of our finest historians. She has a passion
for history that illuminates her books, and writes with integrity,
humanity, and skill. Elizabeth’s Women offers brilliant new
insights into the shaping of the Virgin Queen. If you thought there
was nothing more that could be said about Elizabeth I, you will be
entranced by this original, masterly, and fascinating study of
aspects of her life that have hitherto been overlooked. This is
history as it should be written—and an
內容簡介：
A source of endless fascination and speculation, the subject
of countless biographies, novels, and films, Elizabeth I is now
considered from a thrilling new angle by the brilliant young
historian Tracy Borman. So often viewed in her relationships with
men, the Virgin Queen is portrayed here as the product of women—the
mother she lost so tragically, the female subjects who worshipped
her, and the peers and intimates who loved, raised, challenged, and
sometimes opposed her.
In vivid detail, Borman presents Elizabeth’s bewitching mother,
Anne Boleyn, eager to nurture her new child, only to see her taken
away and her own life destroyed by damning allegations—which taught
Elizabeth never to mix politics and love. Kat Astley, the governess
who attended and taught Elizabeth for almost thirty years, invited
disaster by encouraging her charge into a dangerous liaison after
Henry VIII’s death. Mary Tudor—“Bloody Mary”—envied her younger
sister’s popularity and threatened to destroy her altogether. And
animosity drove Elizabeth and her cousin Mary Queen of Scots into
an intense thirty-year rivalry that could end only in death.
Elizabeth’s Women contains more than an indelible cast of
characters. It is an unprecedented account of how the public
posture of femininity figured into the English court, the meaning
of costume and display, the power of fecundity and flirtation, and
how Elizabeth herself—long viewed as the embodiment of
feminism—shared popular views of female inferiority and scorned and
schemed against her underlings’ marriages and pregnancies.
Brilliantly researched and elegantly written, Elizabeth’s
Women is a unique take on history’s most captivating queen and
the dazzling court that surrounded her.
關於作者：
Tracy Borman studied and taught history at the University of
Hull in England and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1997. She has worked for
various historic properties and national heritage organizations,
including Historic Royal Palaces, the National Archives, and
English Heritage. She is now chief executive of the Heritage
Education Trust and is a regular contributor to history magazines,
such as BBC History Magazine, and a frequent guest on
television and radio.
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