Beatrice Lees: 2 books
by Beatrice Lees
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2016
"IN the year of our Lord's Incarnation 849 light rose out of darkness. Alfred, King of the English, was born in the royal 'vill' [villa regia] which is called Wanetinge [Wantage]." To later historians, as to the early chronicler who wrote these words, King Alfred has appeared as a phenomenon...
Alfred the Great (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
The Truth Teller, Maker of England, 848-899
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Developing her biography, Lees follows the man and myth of Alfred—a study of Europe before and after the man. A contemporary review in the New York Times praised this 1915 volume as "exhaustive and painstaking . . . revealing at times a nice sympathy with her hero and his time and a noteworthy power of constructive imagination."