Arbella: England's Lost QueenHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005 - 450 стор. This biography restores Arbella, England's "lost queen," to vivid life. Layd Arbella Stuart emerges, through Sara Gristwood's masterly storytelling, as a most contemporary royal, a young woman determined to shape her own destiny in the midst of her plot-ridden world. Arbella was part Tudor, part Stuart, and a niece of Mary, Queen of Scots. She was introduced at court as a young girl and acknowledged as the heir to the throne by Elizabeth I. As Gristwood brilliantly shows, Arbella was literally too royal for her own good. A critical pawn in the struggle for succession, particularly during the long, tense period when Elizabeth lay dying, the young Arbella endured years of isolation, confined amid the rural splendors of Hardwick Hall by her scheming and powerful grandmother. The accession of James I, Arbella's first cousin, ended her royal aspirations but thrust her into James's licentious court. Then, at age thirty-five, Arbella risked everything to make her own forbidden marriage. An escape in disguise, a wild flight abroad, and capture at sea led, in the end, to an agonizing death in the Tower of London. Yet nothing is as remarkable as the almost modern freedom with which, in a series of extraordinary letters -- as passionate and extensive as those of any other woman of this suffocating age -- Arbella Stuart revealed her own compelling personality. Arbella is "an enthralling account of an extraordinary life" (Spectator). - Jacket flap. |
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England's Lost Queen Sarah Gristwood. $ 30.00 A stunning debut biography that restores Arbella , England's " lost queen , " to vivid life ADY ARBELLA STUART EMERGES , through Sarah Gristwood's masterly storytelling , as a most ...
England's Lost Queen Sarah Gristwood. $ 30.00 A stunning debut biography that restores Arbella , England's " lost queen , " to vivid life ADY ARBELLA STUART EMERGES , through Sarah Gristwood's masterly storytelling , as a most ...
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England's Lost Queen Sarah Gristwood. Arbella This One AY6E - WSS - FSXB Arbella ENGLAND'S LOST QUEEN Sarah Gristwood HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON.
England's Lost Queen Sarah Gristwood. Arbella This One AY6E - WSS - FSXB Arbella ENGLAND'S LOST QUEEN Sarah Gristwood HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON.
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England's Lost Queen Sarah Gristwood. Arbella ENGLAND'S LOST QUEEN Sarah Gristwood HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON • NEW YORK Copyright © 2003 by Sarah Gristwood ALL RIGHTS RESERVED First.
England's Lost Queen Sarah Gristwood. Arbella ENGLAND'S LOST QUEEN Sarah Gristwood HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON • NEW YORK Copyright © 2003 by Sarah Gristwood ALL RIGHTS RESERVED First.
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England's Lost Queen Sarah Gristwood. Copyright © 2003 by Sarah Gristwood ALL RIGHTS RESERVED First published in Great Britain by Bantam Press , a division of Transworld Publishers , in 2003 For information about permission to reproduce ...
England's Lost Queen Sarah Gristwood. Copyright © 2003 by Sarah Gristwood ALL RIGHTS RESERVED First published in Great Britain by Bantam Press , a division of Transworld Publishers , in 2003 For information about permission to reproduce ...
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England's Lost Queen Sarah Gristwood. day . Perhaps , after all , Arbella's inner journey has already been told , by John Webster , her contemporary - was a source ( so critics have long believed ) for The Duchess of Malfi . When Arbella ...
England's Lost Queen Sarah Gristwood. day . Perhaps , after all , Arbella's inner journey has already been told , by John Webster , her contemporary - was a source ( so critics have long believed ) for The Duchess of Malfi . When Arbella ...
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The hasty marriage | 11 |
Most renowned stock | 21 |
My jewel Arbell | 25 |
Good lady grandmother | 34 |
Little Lady Favour | 47 |
Lawful inheritness 15871602 | 57 |
She will one day be even as I am | 59 |
Courtdazzled eyes | 70 |
A confusion of imbassages | 223 |
My estate being so uncertain | 236 |
To live safe | 245 |
Without mate and without estate | 250 |
A pattern of misfortune 16101615 | 265 |
Affectations of marriage | 267 |
Your faithful losing wife | 279 |
A poor distressed gentlewoman | 290 |
Exile with expectation | 78 |
Slanderous and unlikely surmise | 89 |
The disabling of Arbella | 99 |
This my prison | 110 |
They are dead whom I loved | 118 |
Helping myself in this distress | 126 |
My travelling mind January April 1603 | 137 |
This unadvised young woman | 139 |
A mind distracted | 154 |
So wilfully bent | 163 |
A scribbling melancholy | 173 |
Disorderly attempts | 180 |
That strange outlandish word change | 187 |
My own woman? 16031610 | 197 |
An unknown climate | 199 |
Much spoken of | 211 |
Do break prison and make escape | 299 |
A spectacle of his Majestys displeasure | 309 |
A bird in a cage | 317 |
One most wretched and unfortunate creature | 327 |
Far out of frame | 335 |
I dare to die | 346 |
Epilogue | 355 |
One Morley | 369 |
Arbella and porphyria | 375 |
Places and portraits | 381 |
Family trees | 391 |
Source notes | 397 |
432 | |
Picture acknowledgments | 439 |
442 | |
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