Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003.
(1988)
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
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Antonia Fraser | 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. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 276 |
| Textual Production | Antonia Fraser | 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. qtd. in Wroe, Nicholas. “The history woman”. The Guardian, 24 Aug. 2002, pp. 16-19. 18 |
| Textual Production | Amelia Opie | 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. Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 2009, p. xxxvii - lxx. xlviii Opie, Amelia. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 2009. 274n232 |
| 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 | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | As usual HRM
uses some extraneous material: a defence of the conduct of Mary, Queen of Scots
, and comment on the recently discovered geological record of the earth. By this she means William Smith |
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Judith Sargent Murray | She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | A biographical lecture on Queen Elizabeth
(originally addressed to Working Women's College
students) is also reprinted. The lecture begins: Queen Elizabeth, when first she saw the light of day, was a great disappointment. She was... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jean Ingelow | The publisher's note that opens the text suggests that a little world of cloud and sunshine waits within the pages. Ingelow, Jean et al. Home Thoughts and Home Scenes. Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1865. prelims |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Deverell | In a prologue MD
jokes about her own daring to judge Queen Elizabeth. Her language is formal and stilted, but she has a strong dramatic grasp of the complex and shifting feelings of Mary
and... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria Jane Jewsbury | The more than thirty poems in the volume include ballads and lyrics, as well as Historical Sketches that recount the lives of Joan of Arc
and Mary, Queen of Scots
. The poem To Death... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Violet Fane | The play details the treasonous plot Babington spun to murder Queen Elizabeth
and have Catholic Mary Queen of Scots
assume the throne. Fredeman, William E., and Ira Bruce Nadel, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 35. Gale Research, 1985. 35: 77 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucy Aikin | LA
's preface denies the absurd notion that absolute gender equality might be feasible and advises women not to attempt to become inferior men. But she asserts, there is not an endowment, or propensity, or... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ruth Padel | The style of these poems, said one reviewer, is vintage RP
: dynamic, baroque and jam-packed full of neocultural reference. Padel often writes about animals (sometimes in exotic wild places, often wild animals in captivity)... |
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