Humor Quote by Bill Bryson

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

“Elizabeth is stumbling about the Stromonds' ballroom with all the grace of a baby elephant. Granted, she doesn't weigh much, but it may prove…

— Meredith Duran

“She made amazing artwork. While I focused on the absurd, trying to make the strangest juxtapositions possible, her work was delicate and transcendent. I’m…

— Jarod Kintz

“What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over a manuscript…

— Augusten Burroughs

“And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal…

— H. Rider Haggard

“Just another attempt by Rebecca to connect an everyday occurrence to the literary world. - Adriana”

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

“The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit Father and…

— Dan Simmons

“The horror of her incarceration in the Tower was a defining event Elizabeth could never forget. It made a passionate heart more circumspect, a…

— Jane Dunn

“But that woman is an encyclopedia! Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through! ”

— Jean Lorrain

“My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain…

— Margaret Atwood

“The only beautiful thing in the whole country was the queen, and she had sold herself into a marriage with the Eddisian Thief, the…

— Megan Whalen Turner