Elizabeth I

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Sir Walter Scott
Kenilworth; A Romance (Edinburgh, 1821)
Newberry Library (Y155.S 454, vols. 1-3)
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Almost 250 years after Elizabeth's reign, Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) draws on Laneham's description of the 1575 Progress for the climax of Kenilworth, his romantic and tragic tale about Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and his wife Amy Robsart.

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