Elizabeth Tudor: Portrait of a queen

by Lacey Baldwin Smith

Elizabeth Portrait of a Queen (The library of world biography)

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Biography

234 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1975

About the author

Lacey Baldwin Smith was an historian and author specializing in 16th century England. He was the author of Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty and Catherine Howard: A Tudor Tragedy, among other books.

Born in Princeton, New Jersey, Smith taught at Princeton University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Northwestern University. He received two Fulbright awards, two National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and other awards.He was considered one of the “big name” historians, yet his writing was considered to be as entertaining as it was erudite. He lived in Vermont during his retirement, dying at Greensboro at the age of 90.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1972.

Reviews

[Janet Wertman]

Wonderful book. Smith offers incredible insights. I do wish she had gone as deep/gotten as detailed as she did with Henry.

[Ashley]

Anyone who says Queen Elizabeth I wasn't a visionary needs to get their head examined...

[Joe]

Very well done biography. Gloriana found success through procrastination and understanding; she was truly a Zen Prince.