Download or read book Virgin Mother, Maiden Queen written by Helen Hackett and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces some of the cross-currents in Elizabethan culture, investigating ambiguities within literature which apparently praises the Queen, and the diverse meanings of descriptions of Elizabeth as a saint or goddess. It also considers both the Virgin Queen and the Virgin Mary in terms of the history of representations of gender, sexuality and power.