How long does it take to read Elizabeth I?
Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset takes about 11 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 40 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1991. 636 pages, about 174,900 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 26 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Glitteringly detailed and engagingly written, the magisterial Elizabeth I brings to vivid life the golden age of sixteenth-century England and the uniquely fascinating monarch who presided over it. A woman of intellect and presence, Elizabeth was the object of extravagant adoration by her contemporaries. She firmly believed in the divine providence of her sovereignty and exercised supreme authority over the intrigue-laden Tudor court and Elizabethan England at large. Brilliant, mercurial, seductive, and maddening, an inspiration to artists and adventurers and the subject of vicious speculation over her choice not to marry, Elizabeth became the most powerful ruler of her time. Anne Somerset has immortalized her in this splendidly illuminating account.
Subjects: Biography, History, Queens, Kings and rulers
