Mary Queen of Scots

Mary Queen of Scots
Author: Susan Watkins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780500288177

The fascinating but ultimately tragic tale of Mary, Queen of Scots, holds eternal appeal. In this beautifully illustrated book, Susan Watkins re-creates the world in which Mary lived the landscapes, the palaces and the courtly culture, and the fine details of the domestic scene in vivid word pictures, which give life to the wealth of historical illustrations and specially taken photographs by Mark Fiennes, who accompanied Susan Watkins on her journey in search of the true story behind the Queen across three countries.

Elizabeth and Mary

Elizabeth and Mary
Author: Jane Dunn
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307425746

"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.

Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses

Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses
Author: Agnes Strickland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2011-02-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1108026109

Volume 1 (1850) of this pioneering work of women's history discusses Margaret Tudor, Magdalene of France and Mary of Lorraine.