Lanterna Rally

Author: Frederick Chamberlin

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-13

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9781331334187

Excerpt from The Private Character of Queen Elizabeth When, eight years ago, I set aside all other affairs to write a biographyof Queen Elizabeth, I planned the usual chronological work that, volume by volume, would unfold her career from her birth to her death - this despite the warning of Sir Anthony Weldon, who, in A Brief History of the Kings of England (1652), omitted all particulars of the reign of Elizabeth with this cryptic explanation: "If why I omit ... Queen Elizabeth, I answer I have nothing to do with women, and I wish I never had." I have, however, never been able to control the MS. of this publication. The material for it, as it gradually came to light, demanded a treatment other than that provided by the original scheme; and in the end I have had to submit to the most radical alterations of it. The same will probably be said of the succeeding volume. At the outset I was led to a most critical reading of Froude and Lingard - a comparison of their more important statements with the facts, and a weighing of their interpretation and treatment of them. In this I made the usual error of approaching Froude's twelve volumes from the standpoint of the ordinary reader - that is, as a continuous story of the Reformation period. Taken in this fashion, Froude is irresistible. He has had few equals as a writer of attractive English prose, and as an alluring historian none at all, except Macaulay. His many thousand pages are as fascinating as the best of romances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.