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Alfred Leslie Rowse was born on the 4th of December 1903 at Tregonissey near St Austell in Cornwall. He grew up with modest origins as the son of a china clay worker named Richard and his mother Annie who had limited formal education.
Adam von Trott zu Solz was a German scholar and Rhodes scholar whom Alfred Leslie Rowse met while both attended Oxford during the 1930s. Their relationship remained platonic yet profoundly shaped Rowse's political thinking about Germany despite Trott joining the Auswärtiges Amt foreign office serving Nazi Germany by the late 1930s.
The first volume titled The England of Elizabeth appeared in 1950 followed by The Expansion of Elizabethan England in 1955. He completed the trilogy with The Elizabethan Renaissance which split into two parts released in 1971 and 1972.
Alfred Leslie Rowse identified her as Emilia Lanier based on close readings of the poems alongside diaries kept by Simon Forman when he published Shakespeare the Man in 1973. His theory suggested Shakespeare remained heterosexual despite obsessing over the Dark Lady while maintaining marriage and fathering three children before age twenty-one.
Critics attacked its lack of footnotes endnotes ill-defined theories and opinionated arch comments alienating many readers when Alfred Leslie Rowse published it in 1977. American scholar Richard Aldrich called it one of first serious studies in gay history despite flaws noting some artists Rowse identified were indeed gay.
Alfred Leslie Rowse died on the 3rd of October 1997 at home near Trenarren House after contesting parliamentary seats multiple times representing Labour Party before shifting toward Conservative politics later in life. He ran unsuccessfully for Penryn and Falmouth in 1931 finishing third behind Liberal candidate Maurice Petherick returned as Conservative MP.