Lost Mother

Michael Dobson

  • In My End Is My Beginning: A Life of Mary Queen of Scots by James Mackay
    Mainstream, 320 pp, £20.00, March 1999, ISBN 1 84018 058 7
  • Mary Queen of Scots: Romance and Nation by Jayne Elizabeth Lewis
    Routledge, 259 pp, £14.99, October 1998, ISBN 0 415 11481 0
  • Ancestry and Narrative in 19th-Century British Literature: Blood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy by Sophie Gilmartin
    Cambridge, 281 pp, £37.50, February 1999, ISBN 0 521 56094 2

We are proud of the national sentiment in Scotland which is associated with the name of Mary Queen of Scots. A simple chronicle of her sufferings was the first tale of sorrow over which we wept ... In graver manhood we are not ashamed to acknowledge, that we cannot peruse the volumes of her wrongs without emotion. This feeling, while it shall endure, and pervade the bulk of our population, may be held as a proof that loyalty, and the love of justice, and hatred of oppression, are among our permanent national characteristics.

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