Mary, Queen of Scots

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, as...

EOB published another, more ambitious historical biography, Memoirs of the Life of Mary, Queen of Scots.

AU 's radio play about Mary Queen of Scots was broadcast by the BBC , which had also been airing readings of some of her stories.

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...

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 Queen...

ES , near the end of her life, published a new biography of Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots : The Queens and the Hive. (Her final poetry volume came out on the same day.)

Purdie and Smith worked at the behest of an all-female editorial committeeThe anthology came out in six volumes, printing the music along with the words of its songs; its editor was the greatest...

She continued to write after settling in London, and in early 1945 was at work on a verse drama about Mary, Queen of Scots .

EH published a biography, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots: a new genre for her. The title-page claimed that it was a translation from French.

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...

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...

ET 's various poems about marriage make all the usual points deployed by those writers who set themselves against the current legal drawbacks of marriage for women. She translated Latin epigrams attributed to two famous...

This novel traces the young life of Olive Dalcroze: her personal development and her stifling by society. As a little girl she vies with her flamboyant French cousin Renée (who later falls from respectable society)...

The tone of the work is conservative, leavened with an intelligent concern for development of independent thinking. Topics of various letters include Conduct and Conversation, Forbearance, Chastity, Truth, Employment of Time...

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...