Mary Queen of Scots

EOB writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld for praising Elizabeth Rowe . She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington is the real author of...

Though only about twenty percent of its extracts are written by women (the same proportion as from the Bible), this book is feminist in its emphasis on the virtue of independent judgement as...

Each title-page proclaims: If the cap fits, wear it—perhaps acknowledging the à clef element of the story. This melodramatic, romantic farrago, confused in chronology and inflated in style, is set during the...

Having had the heart-rending misery to deplore the death of my dear children, the countess now longs to die too, but her woes are not yet complete. Her mother is acting as procuress...

These works, with settings ranging from Scotland to America and India, and speakers facing violent death, conform perfectly to the stark tone of the ballad tradition. In a context of tribal warfare, the courage of...

Brooke's advertisement to volume 3 says she gave up her plan for an essay on the writing of history, and settled instead on using notes to demonstrate how this work is, as all history ought...

Jean Plaidy published under this name the first of two paired historical novels about Mary, Queen of Scots : The Royal Road to Fotheringay (Mary's eventual place of imprisonment in England).

QEI wrote twenty surviving letters to her cousin and eventual successor, James VI of Scotland , whose mother she held so long in captivity.

JP returned to Mary, Queen of Scots with a pair of historical novels of which the chronologically later story, The Captive Queen of Scots, appeared first.

Plays by F.A. Kemble appeared, subtitled An English Tragedy. A Play in Five Acts. Mary Stuart , translated from the German of Schiller . Mademoiselle de Belle Isle, translated from the French of Alexandre Dumas

The Tragic Mary, MF 's historical drama based on the life of Mary Stuart or Mary Queen of Scots, was published.

Historically, Anthony Babington , a member of a wealthy Catholic family in Derbyshire, maintained a correspondence with Mary, Queen of Scots , during her imprisonment. In summer 1586 he informed her that he and a...

CY published Unknown to History, A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland, another historical novel, one of the most successful of her later career.

In Mary , Queen of ScotsAF produced a biography based on sound historical scholarship and resolutely sceptical about Mary's romantic appeal, but popular in its empathy and its strong narrative drive.

AO published over these months in the European Magazine a series of twelve Epistles by Mary, Queen of Scots amounting to a thousand lines in heroic couplets, spoken in the voice of the injured queen.