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.

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.

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

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).

JP returned to Mary, Queen of Scots with a pair of historical novels of which the chronologically later story, The Captive Queen of Scots, appeared first.

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

The Tragic Mary, MF 's historical drama based on the life of Mary Stuart or Mary Queen of Scots, was published.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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

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...

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...