Two Queens In One Isle

Author : Alison Plowden
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752467184

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Two Queens in One Isle by Alison Plowden Pdf

The relationship between Queen Elizabeth I of England and her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, is one of the most complex, tempestuous and fascinating in history. United in blood but divided by religion, the two women were in some ways uniquely close; in others, poles apart. Championed by English Catholics as the rightful Queen of England, Mary was nevertheless given protection by her cousin after she was deposed amid outrage at her immoral behaviour. Rumours of papist plots involving Mary were rife and Elizabeth was put under extreme pressure to be rid of this dangerous threat to her sovereignty and to the Protestant church in England. After much reluctance and procrastination Elizabeth finally signed Mary's death warrant. Alison Plowden shows how political fear brought out the worst and yet the best in these women, and how history was overshadowed for centuries afterwards.

Author : Alison Plowden
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780752467184

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Two Queens in One Isle by Alison Plowden Pdf

The relationship between Queen Elizabeth I of England and her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, is one of the most complex, tempestuous and fascinating in history. United in blood but divided by religion, the two women were in some ways uniquely close; in others, poles apart. Championed by English Catholics as the rightful Queen of England, Mary was nevertheless given protection by her cousin after she was deposed amid outrage at her immoral behaviour. Rumours of papist plots involving Mary were rife and Elizabeth was put under extreme pressure to be rid of this dangerous threat to her sovereignty and to the Protestant church in England. After much reluctance and procrastination Elizabeth finally signed Mary's death warrant. Alison Plowden shows how political fear brought out the worst and yet the best in these women, and how history was overshadowed for centuries afterwards.

Author : Alison Plowden
Publisher : Barnes & Noble
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039796516

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Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stewart--two Queens in One Isle by Alison Plowden Pdf

Author : John D. Staines
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754666115

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The Tragic Histories of Mary Queen of Scots, 1560-1690 by John D. Staines Pdf

Charting developments in public rhetoric and political writing from the Elizabethan period through the Restoration, John Staines here explores the political consequences of the emotions generated by the image of Mary Queen of Scots, tragic woman and queen. This study identifies two basic literary traditions of her tragedy: one conservative, sentimental, and royalist, the other radical, skeptical, and republican.

Author : Margaret George
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429938419

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Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles by Margaret George Pdf

Margaret George's exhaustively researched novel skillfully weaves both historical fact and plausible fiction in bringing the story of Mary Queen of Scots to life. She was a child crowned a queen.... A sinner hailed as a saint.... A lover denounced as a whore... A woman murdered for her dreams... Margaret George's Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles brings to life the fascinating story of Mary, who became the Queen of Scots when she was only six days old. Raised in the glittering French court, returning to Scotland to rule as a Catholic monarch over a newly Protestant country, and executed like a criminal in Queen Elizabeth's England, Queen Mary lived a life like no other, and Margaret George weaves the facts into a stunning work of historical fiction. "With a seamless use of original letters, diaries, and poems: a popular, readable, inordinately moving tribute to a remarkable queen." -- Kirkus Reviews

Author : Marilyn Savage Gray
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595191918

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The Real Shakespeare by Marilyn Savage Gray Pdf

THE REAL SHAKESPEARE This book proves that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote the plays we know as ?Shakespearean.' In the play ?Hamlet, ? in a very special coded way, he signed his name ?Ver? hundreds of times. These clues in ?Hamlet? provide the stamp of his authorship! All of the Shakespearean plays and sonnets reflect incidents in the life of Edward de Vere. The real events in his life involved violence, intrigue and love'and some of them were shocking! In a web of conjecture those incidents have been tied together in a novel about de Vere. This novel is one of the main parts of this book. The other two parts are the proof!

Author : Candice Goucher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 2347 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216167167

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Women Who Changed the World [4 volumes] by Candice Goucher Pdf

This indispensable reference work provides readers with the tools to reimagine world history through the lens of women's lived experiences. Learning how women changed the world will change the ways the world looks at the past. Women Who Changed the World: Their Lives, Challenges, and Accomplishments through History features 200 biographies of notable women and offers readers an opportunity to explore the global past from a gendered perspective. The women featured in this four-volume set cover the full sweep of history, from our ancestral forbearer "Lucy" to today's tennis phenoms Venus and Serena Williams. Every walk of life is represented in these pages, from powerful monarchs and politicians to talented artists and writers, from inquisitive scientists to outspoken activists. Each biography follows a standardized format, recounting the woman's life and accomplishments, discussing the challenges she faced within her particular time and place in history, and exploring the lasting legacy she left. A chronological listing of biographies makes it easy for readers to zero in on particular time periods, while a further reading list at the end of each essay serves as a gateway to further exploration and study. High-interest sidebars accompany many of the biographies, offering more nuanced glimpses into the lives of these fascinating women.

Author : Philip Mark Robinson-Self
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110626681

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Early Modern Britain’s Relationship to Its Past by Philip Mark Robinson-Self Pdf

This volume considers the reception in the early modern period of four popular medieval myths of nationhood – the legends of Brutus, Albina, Scota and Arthur – tracing their intertwined literary and historiographical afterlives. The book thus speaks to several connected areas and is timely on a number of fronts: its dialogue with current investigations into early modern historiography and the period’s relationship to its past, its engagement with pressing issues in identity and gender studies, and its analysis of the formation of British national origin stories at a time when modern Britain is seriously considering its own future as a nation.

Author : William B. Turnbull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000349303

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Calendar of State Papers, Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office by William B. Turnbull Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:HN498B

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Calendar of State Papers: 1561-1562 by Great Britain. Public Record Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z22932840X

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Calendar of state papers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015012107630

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Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth: 1561-1562 by Great Britain. Public Record Office Pdf

Author : Michael Dobson,Nicola J. Watson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191541810

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England's Elizabeth by Michael Dobson,Nicola J. Watson Pdf

No monarch is more glamorous or more controversial than Elizabeth I. The stories by which successive generations have sought to extol, explain, or excoriate Elizabeth supply a rich index to the cultural history of English nationalism - whether they represent her as Anne Boleyn's suffering orphan or as the implacable nemesis of Mary, Queen of Scots, as learned stateswoman or as frustrated lover, persecuted princess or triumphant warrior queen. This book examines the many afterlives the Virgin Queen has lived in drama, poetry, fiction, painting, propaganda, and the cinema over the four centuries since her death, from the aspiringly epic to the frankly kitsch. Exploring the Elizabeths of Shakespeare and Spenser, of Sophia Lee and Sir Walter Scott, of Bette Davis and of Glenda Jackson, of Shakespeare in Love and Blackadder II, this is a lively, lavishly-illustrated investigation of England's perennial fascination with a queen who is still engaged in a posthumous progress through the collective pysche of her country.

Author : Frances E. Dolan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812201772

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Marriage and Violence by Frances E. Dolan Pdf

Marriage is often described as a melding of two people into one. But what—or who—must be lost, fragmented, or buried in that process? We have inherited a model of marriage so flawed, Frances E. Dolan contends, that its logical consequence is conflict. Dolan ranges over sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Puritan advice literature, sensational accounts of "true crime," and late twentieth-century marriage manuals and films about battered women who kill their abusers. She reads the inevitable Taming of the Shrew against William Byrd's diary of life on his Virginia plantation, Noel Coward's Private Lives, and Barbara Ehrenreich's assessment in Nickel and Dimed of the relationship between marriage and housework. She traces the connections between Phillippa Gregory's best-selling novel The Other Boleyn Girl and documents about Anne Boleyn's fatal marriage and her daughter Elizabeth I's much-debated virginity. By contrasting depictions of marriage in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and our own time, she shows that the early modern apprehension of marriage as an economy of scarcity continues to haunt the present in the form of a conceptual structure that can accommodate only one fully developed person. When two fractious individuals assert their conflicting wills, resolution can be achieved only when one spouse absorbs, subordinates, or eliminates the other. In an era when marriage remains hotly contested, this book draws our attention to one of the histories that bears on the present, a history in which marriage promises both intimate connection and fierce conflict, both companionship and competition.

Author : Margaret Homans,Adrienne Munich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521573793

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Remaking Queen Victoria by Margaret Homans,Adrienne Munich Pdf

Queen Victoria's central importance to the era defined by her reign is self-evident, and yet it has been surprisingly overlooked in the study of Victorian culture. This collection of essays goes beyond the facts of biography and official history to explore the diverse, and sometimes conflicting, meanings she held for her subjects around the world and even for those outside her empire, who made of her a multifaceted icon serving their social and economic needs. In her paradoxical position as neither consort nor king, she baffled expectations throughout her reign. She was a model of wifely decorum and solid middle-class values, but she also became the focus of anxieties about powerful women, and - increasingly - of anger about Britain's imperial aims. Each essay analyses a different aspect of this complex and fascinating figure. Contributors include noted scholars in the field of literature, cultural studies, art history, and women's studies.