Mary, Queen of Scots

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.

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.

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. She values what...

MRM told a friend that she expected immortality not from any unaided work but from her Mary Queen of Scots ' Farewell to France, based on a poem written in French by the queen...

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...

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...

EM entertained the idea of writing about Elizabeth I : perhaps a comparison between her and Catherine de Medici . She had long taken an interest in Elizabeth as a masculine woman exercising power: had...

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...

EOB published another, more ambitious historical biography, Memoirs of the Life of Mary, Queen of Scots.

AU 's radio play about Mary Queen of Scots was broadcast by the BBC , which had also been airing readings of some of her stories.

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...

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.)

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.

Purdie and Smith worked at the behest of an all-female editorial committeeThe anthology came out in six volumes, printing the music along with the words of its songs; its editor was the greatest...

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