Mary, Queen of Scots

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.

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.

AO published over these months in the European Magazine a series of twelve Epistles by Mary, Queen of Scots amounting to a thousand lines in heroic couplets, spoken in the voice of the injured queen.

They failed to reach agreement with Colburn , and this collection was published by William Blackwood in Edinburgh. It was re-issued by Cambridge University Press in 2011,online and in print-on-demand format. This work...

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

Historically, Anthony Babington , a member of a wealthy Catholic family in Derbyshire, maintained a correspondence with Mary, Queen of Scots , during her imprisonment. In summer 1586 he informed her that he and a...

QEI wrote twenty surviving letters to her cousin and eventual successor, James VI of Scotland , whose mother she held so long in captivity.

Plays by F.A. Kemble appeared, subtitled An English Tragedy. A Play in Five Acts. Mary Stuart , translated from the German of Schiller . Mademoiselle de Belle Isle, translated from the French of Alexandre Dumas

Jean Plaidy published under this name the first of two paired historical novels about Mary, Queen of Scots : The Royal Road to Fotheringay (Mary's eventual place of imprisonment in England).

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...

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)...

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 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...