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

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Occupation Jane Porter
JP discovered in Russia some unpublished letters of Mary Queen of Scots , which she transcribed, and sent to her friends Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland for their edition.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
112-13
Occupation E. Nesbit
A few years later she believed, as if she had entered into one of her own fantasies for children, that she had found out the Shakespeare cipher, which comes out as definitely as the result...
Performance of text Liz Lochhead
LL 's play Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off premiered at Edinburgh's Lyceum Studio during the Fringe Festival , to critical acclaim.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
239
Performance of text Naomi Jacob
She mentions two historical one-acters which she later wrote, both on Scottish themes. One, about Bonnie Prince Charlie as a tired, disappointed exile after his attempt on the throne, was staged by the Scottish National Players
politics Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny
FNBA 's husband not only attended the coronation of the Catholic monarch Mary Tudor on 1 October 1553 (while her eldest brother had just been imprisoned for supporting the rival Protestant candidate Lady Jane Grey
Publishing Jean Plaidy
Seven years later JP published, under this same name, a children's historical book entitled The Young Mary, Queen of Scots. William Randell illustrated it.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing Charlotte Mew
CM published Mary Stuart in Fiction in The Englishwoman.
Mew, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Collected Poems and Prose, edited by Val Warner, Carcanet and Virago, p. ix - xxii.
viii
Publishing Ethel Savi
John Lane asked her to meet his reader, M. P. (Mary Patricia) Willcocks (herself the author of some very clever novels), who suggested that ES should rewrite her manuscript.
Savi, Ethel. My Own Story. Hutchinson.
164
M. P. Willcocks was...
Publishing Mary Hays
She was commissioned to produce this work for the occasion of Queen Caroline's trial, by the publishers T. and J. Allman . Its frontispiece shows Caroline flanked by portraits of Queen Elizabeth , but...
Reception Queen Elizabeth I
The immense and long-lasting interest aroused by Elizabeth is not, of course, primarily due to her writings, any more than were the adulation paid her during her lifetime, the cult of Gloriana, the Virgin Queen...
Reception Sophia Lee
The Recess was highly influential: in its basic technique of inserting fictive persons among actual historical ones, in its polarization of Elizabeth and Mary , and in its heavily sentimental tone. Writers directly influenced by...
Textual Features Elizabeth Tollet
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...
Textual Features Rose Allatini
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)...
Textual Features Sarah Green
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...
Textual Features Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
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...

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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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