Amy Robsart has secretly married Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, favourite of Elizabeth I, and is kept out of sight at Cumnor Place while he courts the Queen’s goodwill. Her rejected suitor Edmund Tressilian tries to rescue her, the villainous Richard Varney schemes for his master, and everything converges on the royal revels at Kenilworth Castle.
Scott’s Elizabethan novel of 1821, rich in pageantry, court intrigue and tragedy. Download the free EPUB.