Elizabeth Lord

The Family Tree Detective

• Author(s): Colin Rogers

• Categories: Reference

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1985
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• Publisher: Manchester University Press

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A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire

• Categories: Baronetage

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1860
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Catalogue of the Entire Collection of Portraits of the Most Illustrious Persons of British History

• Author(s): Christie & Manson

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1838
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• Publisher: Unknown

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British autography, a collection of fac-similies of the hand writing of royal and illustrious personages, with their authentic portraits, publ. by J. Thane [ed. by T. Thane]. [With]

• Author(s): British autography

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1819
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Anna of Denmark, Queen of England

• Author(s): John Leeds Barroll

• Categories: Biography & Autobiography

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2001
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• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

In the well-entrenched critical view of the Jacobean period, James I is credited with the flowering of culture in the early years of the seventeenth century. His queen, Anna of Denmark, is seen as a shadowy figure at best, a capricious and shallow one at worst. But Leeds Barroll makes a well-documented case that it was Anna who, for her own purposes, developed an alternative court and sponsored many of the other artistic ventures in one of the most productive and innovative periods of English cultural history. Married at seventeen, Anna soon became a shrewd and powerful player in the court politics of Scotland and, later, England. Her influence can be seen in James's choices for advisors and...