Young_Bess_(novel)

<i>Young Bess</i> (novel)

Young Bess (novel)

1944 novel

Young Bess is a 1944 historical novel by the British writer Margaret Irwin.[1] It was the first of trilogy focusing on the life of Elizabeth I of England. It focuses on her years as a princess during the reign of her father Henry VIII. It was followed by two sequels, Elizabeth, Captive Princess (1948) and Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain (1953).

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Adaptation

In 1953 it was adapted into a Hollywood film of the same title directed by George Sidney and starring Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr and Charles Laughton.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Kirkpatrick p.390
  2. [2]
    Ford p.237

Bibliography

  • Ford, Elizabeth. Royal Portraits in Hollywood: Filming the Lives of Queens. University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
  • Kirkpatrick, D. L. Twentieth-century Romance and Gothic Writers. Gale Research, 1982.


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