Mary Queen Of Scots by Lady Antonia Fraser
'Reads like an engrossing novel' Sunday Times Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen. Widowed less than two years later, she returned to Scotland as Queen after an absence of thirteen years. Her life then entered its best known phase: the early struggles with John Knox, and the unruly Scottish nobility; the fatal marriage to Darnley and his mysterious death; her marriage to Bothwell, the chief suspect, that led directly to her long English captivity at the hands of Queen Elizabeth; the poignant and extraordinary story of her long imprisonment that ended with the labyrinthine Babington plot to free her, and her execution at the age of forty-four.Lady Fraser brings intuitive insight and humble self projection to this period without losing historical balance. She gives us imaginative vitality and the historical edifice at once -- Norman MacKenzie * International Review of Scottish Studies *
Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular * Guardian *
Fraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and compassionate * Sunday Times *
This is a fine biography, sympathetic without sentimentality, and with a keen awareness of the texture of its subject's world * Literary Review *
Lady Antonia Fraser tells Mary's story movingly and yet with scholarship, insight and balance. It is the sort of biography of Mary which has long been needed * The Scotsman *
The irreplaceable classic biography -- A. N. Wilson * The Spectator *
Antonia Fraser is the author of many widely acclaimed historical works which have been international bestsellers. She was awarded the Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2000 and was made a DBE in 2011 for services to literature.
Her previous books include Mary Queen of Scots, King Charles II, The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England, which won the Wolfson History Prize, Marie Antoinette: The Journey, Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 and The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829. Must You Go?, a memoir of her life with Harold Pinter, was published in 2010, and My History: A Memoir of Growing Up in 2015. She lives in London.
Visit Antonia Fraser's website at www.antoniafraser.com
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| ISBN 13 | 9781780229263 |
| ISBN 10 | 1780229267 |
| Title | Mary Queen Of Scots |
| Author | Lady Antonia Fraser |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2015-01-08 |
| Number of pages | 800 |
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