Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France

The queen in question is Marie Antoinette ; the action takes place before and during the French Revolution, at the Trianon of Versailles and at a chateau near Epernay in Champagne.

Shocked by the Reign of Terror in France, GS from her exile in Switzerland published Réflexions sur le procès de la reine: a brave anonymous pamphlet pleading for the queen 's life.

Her biographers, indeed, wonder if she may have been a spy. She spoke to an agent of d'Orléans in Brussels; on a later visit she carried a letter there for Marie-Antoinette ; she may perhaps...

GE (who by her own account seldom missed a historic occasion) was present when Marie-Antoinette went to the theatre, the Comédie Italienne, with her two eldest children: her last public appearance before her execution.

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...

Probably a number of Holford's poems circulated in manuscript, as did one on a portrait of Marie Antoinette . Joanna Baillie included this poem (which begins And this was she!) and another...

It relates the story told in a book called An Adventure, 1911, by Charlotte Moberly and Eleanor Frances Jourdain , Principal and Deputy Principal of St Hugh's College (which LI herself had attended). In...

The eponymous heroine of The Activities (officially named Lavinia but always called Lavie) is an American railroad heiress, whose father arranges for her to be introduced into English high society by Lady Loamington, who badly...

AS 's correspondence often deals with literary matters as well as with social matters and personalities. She writes with astonishing freedom to Hester Piozzi about the latter's travel book Observations and Reflections: not only...

Mantel's starting point was her choice, when invited to select a book as gift for a celebrity, of Caroline Weber 's Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution as a present for...

The protagonist couple in this novel are both US Communists in the 1940s. Stephen Howard is an Ivy-League-educated child of privilege; his wife, Emily Wilkes, who says she comes from Hix-on-the-Stix, is an exuberant...

It is set in a Kashmir mountain village, where a young widow, Sophie, settles with her two children. Left short of money by her husband's death, she finds standard colonial life stultifying, feels that the...

AY published An Elegy on Marie Antoinette.

AF published her next historical biography, Marie Antoinette : The Journey.

JP 's next two Victoria Holt novels appeared in 1966 and 1967: Menfreya (published in the USA as Menfreya in the Morning) and The King of the Castle, respectively. She then allowed Holt...