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Lost Mother

Michael Dobson

In My End Is My Beginning: A Life of Mary Queen of Scots by James Mackay
Mary Queen of Scots: Romance and Nation by Jayne Elizabeth Lewis
Ancestry and Narrative in 19th-Century British Literature: Blood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy by Sophie Gilmartin

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Michael Dobson is professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck. He is the author of The Making of the National Poet, among other books.

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Let him be Caesar! · The Astor Place Riot

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