I ran across an article about the famous French writer Michel de Montaigne .I didn’t know this, but he was born the same year as Elizabeth I. It is a quick read which compares Montaigne with Elizabeth as well as offers the theory that Shakespeare may have even based the character Hamlet on Montaigne.
Here’s the link to the full article.

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The History Faculty has put together a short reading list for Tudor books. They cover topics from general Tudor history to specific monarchs. It’s interesting to look through the lists and read the short blurp on each book. Here’s the link.

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Here is a review for The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir. This novel follows the young Elizabeth up until her accession to the throne.

The review gives a good synopsis of the book, as well as compares it to Weir’s first novel Innocent Traitor. The reviewer concludes that “Innocent Traitor was good, but the dogmatic, slightly priggish Lady Jane Grey isn’t as interesting of a character as the brilliant and vivacious Elizabeth. Weir also stays with Elizabeth’s point of view, which gives the book a more unified feel than the shifting narration of Innocent Traitor.

Here’s the link to the full review.

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Speaking of the young Elizabeth, Kimberly Eve has written up  a nice review for The Queen’s Governess by Karen Harper. At one point she states that because the novel is “written from the female perspective, the author keeps the relationships between King Henry VIII and his men of the privy council i.e. Thomas Cromwell, Chapuys, and Cardinal Wolsey, quite interesting by cutting the sometimes dullish politics of the sixteenth century with the varied daliances and romances of these men! Making for a sometimes saucy read as well.”

Here’s the link to the full review.

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