Sarah Gristwood: Elizabeth & Leicester [2007] hardback ZCPIC the book expands the scope

the book expands the scope of standard surveys to cover art and architecture from the prehistoric to the Roman era

Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

installations and other media

`With powerfully understated writing

and the wit of a comedian" (Bill Gates)

Sarah Gristwood: Elizabeth & Leicester [2007] hardback ZCPIC the book expands the scopeFew relationships fire our imagination like that of Elizabeth I and her 'bonnie sweet Robin' the Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley. But it has been almost half a century since any book set out specifically to examine and disentangle the emotive, often contradictory facts about their lifelong love. They both grew up amid the palaces and plots of Henry VIII's court; they were both imprisoned in the Tower of London by Elizabeth's sister, Mary. Soon after