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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... royal woman , and rarely seen again in any woman until the twentieth century . It would be a treat to have such an intimate portrait of any woman born four centuries ago , even were there no political dimension to her life . And it ...
... royal woman , and rarely seen again in any woman until the twentieth century . It would be a treat to have such an intimate portrait of any woman born four centuries ago , even were there no political dimension to her life . And it ...
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... royal blood that held as much men- ace as promise . She demanded ' those ordinary rights which other subjects cannot be denied of ' , but she demanded in vain . Yet surely , to have fought as long and hard as she did is in itself a kind ...
... royal blood that held as much men- ace as promise . She demanded ' those ordinary rights which other subjects cannot be denied of ' , but she demanded in vain . Yet surely , to have fought as long and hard as she did is in itself a kind ...
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... royal cousin . It was an act that , in one so close to the throne , was accounted virtual treason , especially since her choice of husband seemed more than suggestive to the authorities . At the age of thirty - five , Arbella had fallen ...
... royal cousin . It was an act that , in one so close to the throne , was accounted virtual treason , especially since her choice of husband seemed more than suggestive to the authorities . At the age of thirty - five , Arbella had fallen ...
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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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