Elizabeth I - University of Missouri

Selected Elizabeth Resources at MU Libraries

The books listed below are only a fraction of the materials on Elizabeth I and her reign available at MU Libraries. Readers can find more resources in the MERLIN Catalogue and databases such as J-STOR and Project Muse.

Recent Biographies of Elizabeth

Bassnett, Susan. Elizabeth I: A Feminist Perspective. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.
MU ELLIS            DA355.B37 1988

Loades, D. M. Elizabeth I. London: Hambledon and London, 2003.
MU ELLIS            DA355.L57 2003

MacCaffrey, Wallace T. Elizabeth I. London; New York: E. Arnold, 1993.
MU ELLIS            DA355.M24 1993

Perry, Maria. The Word of a Prince: A Life of Elizabeth I from Contemporary Documents. Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 1990.
MU ELLIS            DA355.P45 1990

Plowden, Alison. Elizabeth I. Stroud: Sutton, 2004.
MU ELLIS            DA355.P56 2004

Somerset, Anne. Elizabeth I. New York: Anchor Books, 2003.
MU ELLIS            DA355.S67 2003

Weir, Alison. The Life of Elizabeth I. New York: Ballantine, 1998.
MU ELLIS            DA355.W36 1998

Elizabeth's Reign

Doran, Susan. Monarchy and Matrimony: The Courtships of Elizabeth I. London; New York: Routledge, 1996.
MU ELLIS            DA356.D68 1996

Haigh, Christopher, ed. The Reign of Elizabeth I. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985.
MU ELLIS            DA355.R44 1985

Hopkins, Lisa. Queen Elizabeth I and Her Court. London: Vision Press; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.
MU ELLIS            DA356.H75 1990

Levin, Carole. The Reign of Elizabeth I. New York: Palgrave, 2002.
MU ELLIS            DA355.L459 2002

Starkey, David. Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, c2001.
MU ELLIS DA356.S77 2001

The Tudors and Stuarts

Dunn, Jane. Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens. New York: Alfred A. Knopf: Distributed by Randon House, 2004.
MU ELLIS            DA355.D86 2004

Gristwood, Sarah. Arbella: England's Lost Queen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [2005]
MU ELLIS DA391.1.S9 G75 2005

Ives, E. W. The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: “The Most Happy.” Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
MU ELLIS            DA333.B6 I845 2004

Loades, D. M. Chronicles of the Tudor Queens. Stroud: Sutton, 2002.
MU ELLIS            DA317.1.L63 2002

Loades, D. M. Intrigue and Treason: The Tudor Court, 1547-1558. Harlow, England; New York: Pearson Longman, 2004.
MU ELLIS DA340.L579 2004

Loades, D. M. The Mid-Tudor Crisis, 1545-1565. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.
MU ELLIS DA340.L5794 1992

Luke, Mary M. The Nine Days Queen: A Portrait of Lady Jane Grey. New York: W. Morrow, c1986.
MU ELLIS DA345.1.D9 L84 1986

Plowden, Alison. Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stewart: Two Queens in One Isle. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble Books, 1984.
MU DEPOSITORY            DA355.P5667 1984

Schaefer, Carol. Mary Queen of Scots. New York: Crossroad Pub., c2002.
MU ELLIS DA787.A1 S33 2002

Weir, Alison. Henry VIII: The King and His Court. New York : Ballantine Books, 2001.
MU ELLIS            DA332 .W45 2001

Williams, Penry. The Later Tudors: England, 1547-1603. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
MU ELLIS DA355.W4835 1995

English History

Brimacombe, Peter. All the Queen's Men: The World of Elizabeth I. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
MU ELLIS            DA358.A1 B75 2000

Gloriana's Face: Women, Public and Private, in the English Renaissance. Edited by S.P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, c1992.
MU ELLIS            PR418.W65 G56 1992

Lee, Christopher. 1603: The Death of Queen Elizabeth I, the Return of the Black Plague, the Rise of Shakespeare, Piracy, Witchcraft and the Birth of the Stuart Era. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004.
MU ELLIS DA391.L425 2004

The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor & Stuart Britain. Edited by John Morrill. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
MU ELLIS REFERENCE     DA315.O94 1996            LIB USE ONLY

Picard, Liza. Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004.
MU ELLIS DA680.P53 2004

Singman, Jeffrey L. Daily Life in Elizabethan England. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995.
MU ELLIS DA320.S56 1995

Religion

Doran, Susan. Elizabeth I and Religion, 1558-1603. London; New York: Routledge, 1994.
MU ELLIS            BR756.D665 1994

Hackett, Helen. Virgin Mother, Maiden Queen: Elizabeth I and the Cult of the Virgin Mary. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.
MU ELLIS            DA356.H33 1995

Politics and Warfare

Budiansky, Stephen. Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage. New York: Viking, 2005.
MU ELLIS DA358.W2 B83 2005

Cole, Mary Hill. The Portable Queen: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Ceremony. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, c1999.
MU ELLIS            DA356.C56 1999

Hammer, Paul E. J. Elizabeth's Wars: War, Government, and Society in Tudor England, 1544-1604. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
MU ELLIS DA355.H26 2003

Hanson, Neil. The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True History of the Spanish Armada. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
MU ELLIS            DA360 .H34 2005

Hartley, T. E. Elizabeth's Parliaments: Queen, Lords and Commons, 1559-1601. Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, 1992.
MU ELLIS            DA356.H37 1992

Levin, Carole. The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
MU ELLIS            DA355.L458 1994

MacCaffrey, Wallace T. Elizabeth I: War and Politics, 1588-1603. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992.
MU ELLIS            DA355.M25 1992

MacCaffrey, Wallace T. Queen Elizabeth and the Making of Policy, 1572-1588. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981.
MU ELLIS            DA355.M26

Plowden, Alison. The Elizabethan Secret Service. New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1991.
MU ELLIS DA356.P56 1991

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