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Watch the lady : a novel

Title: Watch the lady : a novel / Elizabeth Fremantle.
Author: Fremantle, Elizabeth
Publication: New York : Simon & Schuster Perbacks, 2015.

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Description

ix, 511 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"From "a brilliant new player in the court of royal fiction" (People), comes the mesmerizing story of Lady Penelope Devereux--the daring young beauty in the Tudor court, who inspired Sir Philip Sidney's famous sonnets even while she plotted against Queen Elizabeth. Penelope Devereux arrives at Queen Elizabeth's court where she and her brother, the Earl of Essex, are drawn into the aging Queen's favor. Young and naive, Penelope, though promised elsewhere, falls in love with Philip Sidney who pours his heartbreak into the now classic sonnet series Astrophil and Stella. But Penelope is soon married off to a man who loathes her. Never fainthearted, she chooses her moment and strikes a deal with her husband: after she gives birth to two sons, she will be free to live as she chooses, with whom she chooses. But she is to discover that the course of true love is never smooth. Meanwhile Robert Cecil, ever loyal to Elizabeth, has his eye on Penelope and her brother. Although it seems the Earl of Essex can do no wrong in the eyes of the Queen, as his influence grows, so his enemies gather. Penelope must draw on all her political savvy to save her brother from his own ballooning ambition and Cecil's trap, while daring to plan for an event it is treason even to think about. Unfolding over the course of two decades and told from the perspectives of Penelope and her greatest enemy, the devious politician Cecil, Watch the Lady chronicles the last gasps of Elizabeth's reign, and the deadly scramble for power in a dying dynasty"--
"The author of Queen's Gambit and Sisters of Treason presents the story of Penelope Devereux, so beautiful she was the subject of Sir Philip Sidney's greatest love sonnets, so canny that she plotted to influence who would take the throne after Elizabeth I--while helping her brother Essex stay closest to the aging queen's heart"--

Series Statement

Tudor trilogy ; [3]

Subjects

Genre/Form

Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Fiction.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JFD 15-3326

ISBN

9781476703121 (softcover)
1476703124 (softcover)
9781476703145 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014049311

OCLC

894746833

Author

Fremantle, Elizabeth, author.

Title

Watch the lady : a novel / Elizabeth Fremantle.

Publisher

New York : Simon & Schuster Perbacks, 2015.

Edition

First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Tudor trilogy ; [3]

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

1485 - 1603

Research Call Number

JFD 15-3326

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