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How Did Elizabeth Contribute To A Patriarchal Society

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According to Jane Resh Thomas, Elizabeth won the personal respect of both enemies and friends, and she led England at the dawn of its influence as a great nation. Despite her gender and the patriarchal society, she established and maintained her power, carved a career and a life on her own, and refused to marry. (Thomas n.p.)
Elizabeth was born in Greenwich Palace, near London on September 7, 1533. She was the daughter of King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who was thirty-two years old. Henry VIII was anxious for a son who could be able to succeed him when he died that he divorced his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, who was forty-two years old, when she gave birth to a girl ,Mary Tudor, instead of a boy.
The birth of Elizabeth
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