Mary, Queen of Scots

In the summer of 1850 AS was in Scotland, not doing research but hunting royal relics. In fact, once Blackwell became her publisher, she made frequent visits to Edinburgh. She made her own...

They failed to reach agreement with Colburn , and this collection was published by William Blackwood in Edinburgh. It was re-issued by Cambridge University Press in 2011,online and in print-on-demand format. This work...

Elizabeth collaborated with her sister again in an edition of the Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1842, a project which she began and which Agnes later joined. Many of these letters were appearing...

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

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.)

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...

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...

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.

JP discovered in Russia some unpublished letters of Mary Queen of Scots , which she transcribed, and sent to her friends Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland for their edition.

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.

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.

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).

It was probably Mary A. Marzials ' anthology Gems of English Poetry which made poetry the only lesson the Knoxes disliked. Winifred felt that Hemans 's boy on the burning deck cut a poor figure...

The poem picked out by the Critical Review as the principal one, occupying fourteen pages, is entitled Lines found on the Stairs of the Tour de la Chapelle of the Bastile. These lines, powerful...

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...