Lost Mother
Michael Dobson, 17 February 2000
In My End Is My Beginning: A Life of Mary Queen of Scots
by James Mackay.
Mainstream, 320 pp., £20, March 1999,1 84018 058 7 Show More
by James Mackay.
Mainstream, 320 pp., £20, March 1999,
Mary Queen of Scots: Romance and Nation
by Jayne ElizabethLewis.
Routledge, 259 pp., £14.99, October 1998,0 415 11481 0 Show More
by Jayne ElizabethLewis.
Routledge, 259 pp., £14.99, October 1998,
Ancestry and Narrative in 19th-Century British Literature: Blood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy
by Sophie Gilmartin.
Cambridge, 281 pp., £37.50, February 1999,0 521 56094 2 Show More
by Sophie Gilmartin.
Cambridge, 281 pp., £37.50, February 1999,
“... the 1560s to the present time. I had not fully appreciated, for example, the extent to which Queen Elizabeth, both personally and through her ministers, agents and ambassadors, manipulated and controlled the affairs of Scotland ... In 1603, when James VI became James I of England, Scotland lost her resident monarch. Little more than a century later, ‘a ... ”
