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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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Lucy Aikin
LA 's preface denies the absurd notion that absolute gender equality might be feasible and advises women not to attempt to become inferior men. But she asserts, there is not an endowment, or propensity, or...
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)...
Leisure and Society Jane Austen
In 2009 another scholarly furore greeted the Juvenilia Press edition of Austen's History of England by Annette Upfal and Christine Alexander . The editors argued (here and in an article) that Cassandra Austen's tiny sketches...
Textual Production Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
EOB published another, more ambitious historical biography, Memoirs of the Life of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
28: 267
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press.
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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...
Textual Features Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw
Each title-page proclaims: If the cap fits, wear it—perhaps acknowledging the à clef element of the story.
Bradshaw, Mary Ann Cavendish. Memoirs of Maria, Countess d’Alva. William Miller.
1: title-page
This melodramatic, romantic farrago, confused in chronology and inflated in style, is set during the...
Textual Features Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw
Having had the heart-rending misery to deplore the death of my dear children, the countess now longs to die too,
Bradshaw, Mary Ann Cavendish. Memoirs of Maria, Countess d’Alva. William Miller.
1: 56
but her woes are not yet complete. Her mother is acting as procuress...
Textual Features Frances Brooke
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...
Textual Production Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne
Purdie and Smith worked at the behest of an all-female editorial committee
McGuirk, Carol. “Jacobite History to National Song: Robert Burns and Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne)”. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Vol.
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, No. 2/3, pp. 253-87.
258
The anthology came out in six volumes, printing the music along with the words of its songs; its editor was the greatest...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
A biographical lecture on Queen Elizabeth (originally addressed to Working Women's College students) is also reprinted. The lecture begins: Queen Elizabeth, when first she saw the light of day, was a great disappointment. She was...
Textual Production Mary Deverell
MD published through Stockdale her last known work, Mary Queen of Scots , An Historical Tragedy, or, Dramatic Poem.
Deverell, Mary. Mary, Queen of Scots. Printed for the author.
title-page
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Deverell
In a prologue MD jokes about her own daring to judge Queen Elizabeth. Her language is formal and stilted, but she has a strong dramatic grasp of the complex and shifting feelings of Mary and...
Textual Production Queen Elizabeth I
QEI wrote twenty surviving letters to her cousin and eventual successor, James VI of Scotland , whose mother she held so long in captivity.
Elizabeth I, Queen. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Editors Marcus, Leah S. et al., University of Chicago Press.
261-97, 355-403
Friends, Associates Queen Elizabeth I
The flight of Mary, Queen of Scots from her own country in May 1568 into Elizabeth's domain caused the English queen much heart-burning. Mary (Elizabeth's cousin) was an obvious pretender to the throne, representing the...
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...

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1 July 1505: The Barber Surgeons of Edinburgh (forerunner...

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1 July 1505

The Barber Surgeons of Edinburgh (forerunner of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh ) were formally incorporated as a Craft Guild.

14 December 1542: James V of Scotland died, and his infant...

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14 December 1542

James V of Scotland died, and his infant daughter assumed the throne as Mary Queen of Scots .

1558: John Knox published his Monstrous Regiment...

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1558

John Knox published his Monstrous Regiment of Women, maintaining that woman had no natural or god-given authority to rule.

July 1567: Mary Queen of Scots miscarried of twins—or,...

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July 1567

Mary Queen of Scots miscarried of twins—or, according to an unsubstantiated rumour, bore a live daughter who was despatched to a French convent.

24 July 1567: Mary, Queen of Scots, abdicated in favour...

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24 July 1567

Mary, Queen of Scots , abdicated in favour of her one-year-old son, and James VI assumed the Scottish throne.

May 1568: Mary Queen of Scots fled from Scotland to...

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May 1568

Mary Queen of Scots fled from Scotland to England; she was imprisoned by Elizabeth I after standing trial in October that year.

20-21 September 1586: Anthony Babington and six other Roman Catholics...

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20-21 September 1586

Anthony Babington and six other Roman Catholics were executed for high treason (plotting to murder Queen Elizabeth with the intention of putting Mary, Queen of Scots , on the throne).

8 February 1587: Mary Queen of Scots was executed at Fotheringay...

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8 February 1587

Mary Queen of Scots was executed at Fotheringay Castle in England.

By 8 June 1615: Antiquary and historian William Camden anonymously...

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By 8 June 1615

Antiquary and historian William Camden anonymously published the first part of his Annales, a Latin history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth .

17 March 1677: Nathaniel Lee's tragedy The Rival Queens...

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17 March 1677

Nathaniel Lee 's tragedyThe Rival Queens opened on stage.

1684: John Banks's tragedy The Island Queens (which...

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1684

John Banks 's tragedy The Island Queens (which featured Mary Queen of Scots as heroine and Elizabeth I as villain) was defiantly published after having been banned from the stage.

18 February 1742: Horace Walpole noted at a masquerade the...

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18 February 1742

Horace Walpole noted at a masquerade the popularity of Mary Queen of Scots costumes, and those dressed like Van Dyck portraits in vaguely seventeenth-century style.

1778: Gilbert Stuart published his major work,...

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1778

Gilbert Stuart published his major work, A View of Society in Europe.

1801: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller's...

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1801

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 's tragedyMaria Stuart, first produced the previous year, was printed in J. C. Mellish 's English translation as Mary Stuart.

November 1865: Algernon Charles Swinburne published a five-act...

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November 1865

Algernon Charles Swinburne published a five-act poetic drama about Mary Queen of Scots , Chastelard.

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