Mary Queen of Scots

The tone of the work is conservative, leavened with an intelligent concern for development of independent thinking. Topics of various letters include Conduct and Conversation, Forbearance, Chastity, Truth, Employment of Time...

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...

Though only about twenty percent of its extracts are written by women (the same proportion as from the Bible), this book is feminist in its emphasis on the virtue of independent judgement as...

Though occasionally sketchy (it gives Elizabeth Elstob , for instance, four lines), this is a work of real research, from a consistently feminist point of view. MH investigates the question of women in power with...

Each title-page proclaims: If the cap fits, wear it—perhaps acknowledging the à clef element of the story. This melodramatic, romantic farrago, confused in chronology and inflated in style, is set during the...

Having had the heart-rending misery to deplore the death of my dear children, the countess now longs to die too, but her woes are not yet complete. Her mother is acting as procuress...

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...

AH left four manuscript volumes of poetry, three now at the Royal College of Surgeons and one at Aberdeen University .The works that she left unprinted were chiefly songs (some of them pastoral)...

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...

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...

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...

MD published through Stockdale her last known work, Mary Queen of Scots , An Historical Tragedy, or, Dramatic Poem.

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.

CO published the two first of her carefully-researched historical novels, The Road Royal (about Mary Queen of Scots ), and, later the same year, Princess Amelia.

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.