Author: Peter Hume Brown
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Life of Mary, Queen of Scots. [By James Grant.]
Author: Mary (Queen of Scots)
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Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Elizabeth and Mary
Author: Jane Dunn
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307425746
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
"Superb.... A perceptive, suspenseful account." --The New York Times Book Review "Dunn demythologizes Elizabeth and Mary. In humanizing their dynamic and shifting relationship, Dunn describes it as fueled by both rivalry and their natural solidarity as women in an overwhelmingly masculine world." --Boston Herald The political and religious conflicts between Queen Elizabeth I and the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, have for centuries captured our imagination and inspired memorable dramas played out on stage, screen, and in opera. But few books have brought to life more vividly the exquisite texture of two women’s rivalry, spurred on by the ambitions and machinations of the forceful men who surrounded them. The drama has terrific resonance even now as women continue to struggle in their bid for executive power. Against the backdrop of sixteenth-century England, Scotland, and France, Dunn paints portraits of a pair of protagonists whose formidable strengths were placed in relentless opposition. Protestant Elizabeth, the bastard daughter of Anne Boleyn, whose legitimacy had to be vouchsafed by legal means, glowed with executive ability and a visionary energy as bright as her red hair. Mary, the Catholic successor whom England’s rivals wished to see on the throne, was charming, feminine, and deeply persuasive. That two such women, queens in their own right, should have been contemporaries and neighbours sets in motion a joint biography of rare spark and page-turning power.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307425746
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
"Superb.... A perceptive, suspenseful account." --The New York Times Book Review "Dunn demythologizes Elizabeth and Mary. In humanizing their dynamic and shifting relationship, Dunn describes it as fueled by both rivalry and their natural solidarity as women in an overwhelmingly masculine world." --Boston Herald The political and religious conflicts between Queen Elizabeth I and the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, have for centuries captured our imagination and inspired memorable dramas played out on stage, screen, and in opera. But few books have brought to life more vividly the exquisite texture of two women’s rivalry, spurred on by the ambitions and machinations of the forceful men who surrounded them. The drama has terrific resonance even now as women continue to struggle in their bid for executive power. Against the backdrop of sixteenth-century England, Scotland, and France, Dunn paints portraits of a pair of protagonists whose formidable strengths were placed in relentless opposition. Protestant Elizabeth, the bastard daughter of Anne Boleyn, whose legitimacy had to be vouchsafed by legal means, glowed with executive ability and a visionary energy as bright as her red hair. Mary, the Catholic successor whom England’s rivals wished to see on the throne, was charming, feminine, and deeply persuasive. That two such women, queens in their own right, should have been contemporaries and neighbours sets in motion a joint biography of rare spark and page-turning power.
Scotland in the Time of Queen Mary
Author: Peter Hume Brown
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Publisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles
Author: Margaret George
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447217438
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles is the story of a woman born to rule a nation – and the glorious pageant of love and tragedy that followed in her wake. Mary's beauty inspired poetry – yet her birthright engendered hideous treachery and terrible, bloody murder. This novel is Margaret George's magnificent recreation of the life of one of history's greatest legends. A woman accused of murdering her husband to marry her lover. A woman who became Queen six days after her birth in 1542 – only to be beheaded forty years later on the orders of her cousin, Elizabeth I . . .
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447217438
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles is the story of a woman born to rule a nation – and the glorious pageant of love and tragedy that followed in her wake. Mary's beauty inspired poetry – yet her birthright engendered hideous treachery and terrible, bloody murder. This novel is Margaret George's magnificent recreation of the life of one of history's greatest legends. A woman accused of murdering her husband to marry her lover. A woman who became Queen six days after her birth in 1542 – only to be beheaded forty years later on the orders of her cousin, Elizabeth I . . .
The Case of Mary Queen of Scots, and of Elizabeth Queen of England, Legally, Briefly and Historically Stated: Embracing the Amorous Life of the Virgin Queen, and Identifying Her with All the Plans that Led to Mary's Ruin and Murder. With an Account of Last Moments of Mary, Her Letter to Elizabeth and Davison's Apology about the Death Warrant, Etc
Author: Esq. Hugh Campbell
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Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Languages : en
Pages : 430
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The History of England from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources
Author: David Hume
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Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Languages : en
Pages : 894
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A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the time of the Romans government unto the raigne of our soueraigne Lord King Charles, etc. Few ms. notes
Author: Sir Richard Baker
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Languages : en
Pages : 918
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Languages : en
Pages : 918
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The Lives of the Most Eminent Persons Who Have Flourished in Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Andrew Kippis
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN: 9783487405162
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN: 9783487405162
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Footprints in Time
Author: Linda Bryan Johnston
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1796026719
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Footprints in Time follows thirty-two generations of the Bryan family, dating as far back as the year 907. The book begins with the Comtes de Flanders (Counts of Flanders), who first settled in a small village in the Champagne Region of France after fleeing from Viking attacks on their homeland of Flanders. The Comes de Briennes, as they became known, lived in France for over nine generations. The family later migrated into Wales, then England, then Ireland. In 1650, the Bryans were deported from Ireland to the Colony of Virginia by Oliver Cromwell during the English invasion of Ireland. Col. William Smith Bryan of the Irish Rebel Forces and a direct descendent of the Irish king, Brian Boru, was viewed by the English as a threat to their dominance over Ireland. The book traces the early days of the Bryan family in Colonial America to the present. The family line includes French and English royalty, knights, lords, political leaders, explorers, religious leaders, pioneers, salt-of-the-earth Americans, and even a renowned pirate.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1796026719
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Footprints in Time follows thirty-two generations of the Bryan family, dating as far back as the year 907. The book begins with the Comtes de Flanders (Counts of Flanders), who first settled in a small village in the Champagne Region of France after fleeing from Viking attacks on their homeland of Flanders. The Comes de Briennes, as they became known, lived in France for over nine generations. The family later migrated into Wales, then England, then Ireland. In 1650, the Bryans were deported from Ireland to the Colony of Virginia by Oliver Cromwell during the English invasion of Ireland. Col. William Smith Bryan of the Irish Rebel Forces and a direct descendent of the Irish king, Brian Boru, was viewed by the English as a threat to their dominance over Ireland. The book traces the early days of the Bryan family in Colonial America to the present. The family line includes French and English royalty, knights, lords, political leaders, explorers, religious leaders, pioneers, salt-of-the-earth Americans, and even a renowned pirate.
The History of England
Author: Rapin de Thoyras (M., Paul)
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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