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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 ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Charlotte Yonge | CY
published Unknown to History, A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland, another historical novel, one of the most successful of her later career. |
Textual Features | Mary Wollstonecraft | Though only about twenty percent of its extracts are written by women (the same proportion as from the Bible), McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 501 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Helen Maria Williams | In a humble preface Williams invokes her mentor Kippis
. The poems, in many genres (many treating of history, and of the sufferings caused by poverty and war), include a sentimental treatment of Mary, Queen of Scots |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lady Mary Walker | The title character, Eliza de Crui, sets the tone for discussion by writing from Brussels to Mrs Pierpont at Liège with the remark that, since it is so hard to say anything new, she will... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Priscilla Wakefield | Despite the title, the travel in this sequel or companion to The Juvenile Travellers confines itself to the British Isles, where one of the most pressing topics of local interest is association with writers... |
Textual Production | Alison Uttley | |
Textual Production | Alison Uttley | AU
published her successful A Traveller in Time, a historical novel for children which she based on the Babington plot to rescue Mary Queen of Scots
from imprisonment and put her on the throne... |
Textual Production | Melesina Trench | Melesina St George (later MT
) issued as a Lady, through John Stockdale
, her earliest known published work, Mary, Queen of Scots
, an Historical Ballad, With Other Poems. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Violet Trefusis | Around 1924, when VT
was attending classes at the Sorbonne
, she wrote a play (unpublished and probably unperformed) about Mary, Queen of Scots
and Elizabeth I
titled Les soeurs ennemies. Sharpe, Henrietta. A Solitary Woman: A Life of Violet Trefusis. Constable. 79 |
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... |
Occupation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | In 1860 ACS
inaugurated his literary career with two plays published together as The Queen Mother; Rosamond. He also contributed literary criticism and poetry to periodicals such as The Spectator. Two of his... |
Birth | Lady Arbella Stuart | Mary, Queen of Scots
, had sent a gift for the new baby by 10 November. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Lady Arbella Stuart | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Arbella Stuart | LAS
's father, Charles Stuart, Earl of Lennox
, was the only surviving child of his mother, Lady Margaret Douglas
; he was a grandson of Margaret Tudor
, Queen of Scots, and a great-grandson... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Agnes Strickland | Elizabeth
and AS
's historical studies in the British Museum
produced an edition of the Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, to which they were able to bring much unpublished material. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. 785 (12 November 1842): 966-9 |
Timeline
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
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.
Texts
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