Author:
Goring, Rosemary, author.
ImprintEdinburgh : Birlinn, 2022.
Imprint2022
Descriptionxxvii, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
Note:'As goodly a child as I have seen' -- 'Not as clean as they might be' -- 'What snatching and catching, what bruising and broostling' -- 'Put all to fyre and swoorde' -- Treaties and Treason -- Mary and le petit roi -- 'The very face of heaven' -- An Īle de France -- 'Ower sair' -- 'An orgy of greed' -- The Cock o' the North -- The Lap of Luxury -- Home for 'a country girl' -- 'Exercing hir one day richt oppinlie at the feildis with palmall and goif' -- 'I died for love of your beauty' -- 'More like a woman than a man' -- 'God save his grace' -- 'Smaller than their own scullery at home' -- 'He must learn his duty better' -- 'Of truth we are so tired' -- 'For that you saved his life...' -- 'If we lose this one we will make another' -- The Queen's Mire -- 'Unless she was free of him she had no pleasure to live' -- 'Intolerable stink' -- 'How begrimed you are!' -- 'Dressed in men's clothes, booted and spurred' -- 'Burn the whore' -- 'Great, gloomy tower' -- 'He who does not keep faith...' -- 'By battle let us try it!' -- 'Three nights living like the owls' -- 'No luck ever blessed him who hated Mary Stuart'.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-290) and index.
Note:In this book, Rosemary Goring tells the story of Mary's Scottish years through the often dramatic and atmospheric locations and settings where the events that shaped her life took place and also examines the part Scotland, and its tumultuous court and culture, played in her downfall.
