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Mary, Queen of Scots
Standard Name: Mary,, Queen of Scots
Used Form: Mary of Scotland
Used Form: Mary Stuart
Used Form: Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Mrs F. C. Patrick | 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... |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | 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). |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | 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. “Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com. Tóibín, Colm. “I Was Mary Queen of Scots”. London Review of Books, pp. 3-6. 3 |
| Textual Production | Michael Field | The Tragic Mary, MF
's historical drama based on the life of Mary Stuart
or Mary Queen of Scots, was published. Field, Michael. The Tragic Mary. G. Bell and Sons. viii Ehnenn, Jill. “Looking Strategically: Feminist and Queer Aesthetics in Michael Field’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Sight and Song</span>”;. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 42 , No. 3, pp. 213-59. 238 |
| Textual Production | Antonia Fraser | 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. Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. (1988) “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 276 |
| Textual Production | Melesina Trench | Melesina St George (later MT
) issued as a Lady, through John Stockdale
, her earliest known published work, Mary, Queen of Scots
, an Historical Ballad, With Other Poems. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Textual Production | Antonia Fraser | AF
divides her composition of historical books into three stages: first the research, then setting her notes aside and writing straight through, then editing and correcting according to the notes. Wroe, Nicholas. “The history woman”. The Guardian, pp. 16-19. 18 |
| Textual Production | Alison Uttley | AU
published her successful A Traveller in Time, a historical novel for children which she based on the Babington plot to rescue Mary Queen of Scots
from imprisonment and put her on the throne... |
| Textual Production | Antonia Fraser | Cromwell was like her first historical subject, Mary, Queen of Scots
, in having been arguably demonised both in the public mind and in much historical writing; he was unlike Mary in suffering from a... |
| Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
told a friend that she expected immortality not from any unaided work but from her Mary Queen of Scots
' Farewell to France, based on a poem written in French by the queen... |
| Textual Production | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | MAS
describes several very early writing projects. When her mother gave her a writing-case which locked, to ensure privacy, she spent hours in pouring out the effusions of my own bitter heart, Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Editor Hankin, Christiana C., Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. 1: 314 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | EOB
published another, more ambitious historical biography, Memoirs of the Life of Mary, Queen of Scots. Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 28: 267 O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press. 220 |
| Textual Production | Alison Uttley | |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
entertained the idea of writing about Elizabeth I
: perhaps a comparison between her and Catherine de Medici
. She had long taken an interest in Elizabeth as a masculine woman exercising power: had... |
| Textual Production | Sir Walter Scott | Sir Walter Scott
, as the author of Waverley (knighted this year), published The Abbot, a historical novel whose view of Mary Queen of Scots
stands in complex relationship to the trial of |
Timeline
1876: By this date, women healers were so popular...
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1876
By this date, women healers were so popular among spiritualists that one consultation often cost as much as a guinea.
August 2006: A portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots was given...
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August 2006
A portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots
was given a prominent place in the National Portrait Gallery after it was recently discovered to date from Mary's lifetime.
February 2008: Lambeth Palace Library, the historic library...
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February 2008
Lambeth Palace Library
, the historic library and record office of the Archbishop of Canterbury, acquired for £72,485 a copy of the warrant for the death of Mary, Queen of Scots
.
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