Fredeman, William E., and Ira Bruce Nadel, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 35. Gale Research.
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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Violet Fane | The play details the treasonous plot Babington spun to murder Queen Elizabeth
and have Catholic Mary Queen of Scots
assume the throne. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 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 | Mary Hays | Though occasionally sketchy (it gives Elizabeth Elstob
, for instance, four lines), this is a work of real research, from a consistently feminist point of view. MH
investigates the question of women in power with... |
| Publishing | Mary Hays | She was commissioned to produce this work for the occasion of |
| Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | 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. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto. 233, 236 Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press. 191 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jean Ingelow | The publisher's note that opens the text suggests that a little world of cloud and sunshine waits within the pages. Ingelow, Jean et al. Home Thoughts and Home Scenes. Routledge, Warne and Routledge. prelims |
| 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 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Jenkins | The TLS review pointed out two small errors and suggested that both Elizabeth's relationship with Mary Queen of Scots
and the nature of England's rivalry with Spain were somewhat oversimplified here, but it praised the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria Jane Jewsbury | The more than thirty poems in the volume include ballads and lyrics, as well as Historical Sketches that recount the lives of Joan of Arc
and Mary, Queen of Scots
. The poem To Death... |
| Textual Production | Fanny Kemble | 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 |
Timeline
1876: By this date, women healers were so popular...
Building item
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...
Building item
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...
Building item
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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