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About This Book
Based on contemporary documents and histories, Roderick Graham paints a unique picture of Mary that sees her neither as a Catholic martyr, nor as a husband-murdering adulteress, but as a young girl adrift in the dangerous seas of sixteenth-century politics. Mary Stuart had none of the ruthlessness of her contemporary sisters, and the female empowerment of Catherine de Medici, Diane de Poitiers or Elizabeth Tudor passed her by.In an age of intellectually brilliant and powerful women, Mary relied on her beauty and charm in place of reason and determination. Passively and gracefully, she allowed events to overtake her as accidents and when she did attempt to control her future she unwittingly set in train the events that would lead her to the executioner's block.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Author biography
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Family trees
- PART I : Scotland, 1542–48
- 1 As goodly child as I have seen
- 2 One of the most perfect creatures
- PART II : France, 1548–61
- 3 We may be very well pleased with her
- 4 The most amiable Princess in Christendom
- 5 She cannot long continue
- 6 She universally inspires great pity
- PART III : Scotland, 1561–68
- 7 We had landed in an obscure country
- 8 Dynastic entity
- 9 The dancing grows hot
- 10 Yonder long lad
- 11 She wished she had never been married
- 12 Some evil turn
- 13 It does not appertain to subjects to reform their prince
- PART IV : England, 1568–87
- 14 Whistling in the dark
- 15 A lawful prisoner?
- 16 My fortune has been so evil
- 17 Stranger, papist and enemy
- 18 To trap her in a snare
- 19 You are but a dead woman
- 20 A place near the kings
- Appendix: The Scots Tongue
- Note on sources
- Bibliography
- Index