Abstract

Queen Bees Once More

The article presents information on the book "Queen Elizabeth," by Katharine Anthony. While her book has unity of design, it lacks a corresponding unity of method. That is to say, at moments she writes with something of the lush fullness of objective treatment which, rightly or wrongly, is supposed to be a dominant element in "modern" biography; but at other times she returns to that almost completely Freudian treatment with which, in her book on Margaret Fuller, she began her writing career. Though her style is not now, as formerly, loaded with the technicalities of the Freudian school--she does occasionally use such expressions as "psychopathic," "delusions of grandeur," and "neurotic"--she nevertheless roundly insists that the lifelong "mannishness" of the Queen was due to the rough-and-ready disposition and language of her notorious father.