Virgin Queen

by Catherine Corman, Naomi Yang (Design)

Virgin Queen is a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. Focusing on her interior life, it traverses her tragic love affairs and her fraught relationship with Mary, Queen of Scots, the cousin she never met. These pages illustrate her moments of defeat, her defiance, her strategies, her secrets, and her deathbed scene. "Catherine Corman gives us an admirable companion in prose poems and photographs to one of England's greatest monarchs." -Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of The University of Oxford

93 pages, ebook

First published December 8, 2014

About the author

Catherine Corman's book of photographs, Daylight Noir: Raymond Chandler's Imagined City, was exhibited at the 2009 Venice Biennale, and is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art Library. Her short film Les Non-Dupes screened at the 2012 Berlin Biennale. She is also the editor of Joseph Cornell's Dreams. Her work has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement and Vogue Italia, and on the websites of The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Economist. She was educated at Harvard and Oxford Universities.