In the minds of the country's ruling class, a marriage for the queen was also necessary. Some have supposed that at this stage Elizabeth may have hoped to marry one day, although she herself publicly...
Textual Production
Queen Elizabeth I
QEI
used a book of Devotions, linked to the Anjou
courtship of 1579-82, which she may possibly have written or at least collected. The original manuscript (a tiny book, two by three inches, probably...
