Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
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Jane Dunn. Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
ELIZABETH. AND MARY. Cousins, Rivals, Queens
DEDICATION
CONTENTS
CHRONOLOGY
PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE The Fateful Step
CHAPTER TWO The Disappointment of Kings
CHAPTER THREE The Education of Princes
CHAPTER FOUR Apprenticeship for a Queen
CHAPTER FIVE Wilfulness and God’s Will
CHAPTER SIX Complicity and Competition
CHAPTER SEVEN Raison de Coeur: Raison d’État
CHAPTER EIGHT Seeking a Future King
CHAPTER NINE Outrageous Fortune
CHAPTER TEN Double Jeopardy
CHAPTER ELEVEN Singular Foes
CHAPTER TWELVE The Consequence of the Offence
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
P.S
About the Author
About the Book
Read On
About the Author. Portrait
SNAPSHOT
Life Drawing
A Random First Eleven Favourite Reads
ABOUT THE BOOK. Critical Eye
The Bigger Picture Queens of Stage and Screen
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
AUTHOR’S NOTE
NOTES
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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JANE DUNN
DAVID ROLF THESEN
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In classical Greece, women were seen as perpetual minors: worse off even than the disregarded Victorian child, they were exhorted to be neither seen nor heard. A woman’s name was not given in public unless she was dead or of ill repute. In Pericles’s famous funeral speech, Thucydides set out the aspirations of womankind: ‘Your great glory is not to be inferior to what God has made you, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be less talked about by men, whether they are praising you or criticising you.’21 Silence best became her.
In the most commonly held myth of the birth of Athena, the goddess of war and wisdom springs from the head of her father, Zeus, fully formed, without any contribution from her mother. In this way, the necessarily male source of all that is active and intellectually pre-eminent is not diluted by the female. By stressing all her life her relation to her father, Elizabeth claimed not only some of the lustre of this Tudor Zeus but perhaps also tried to distance herself from the perceived weaknesses of her mother’s (and all women’s) femininity: duplicity, moral deficiency and treachery.
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