Article: Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman.(Book review)

Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman. Edited by Carole Levin, Jo Eldridge Carney, and Debra Barrett-Graves. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xii, 282. $79.95.)

In many ways, this collection bookends Julia Walker's 1998 edited collection, Dissing Elizabeth. Negative Representations of Gloriana. In that volume, literary critics and historians explored what is arguably the most telling paradox of Elizabeth's reign: the extent to which this most celebrated queen was criticized and condemned during her lifetime--by subjects whose primary loyalties were engaged by the Protestant English nation that she represented. The paradox highlights the centrality of gender ...

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