MARY OF SCOTLAND

by F. W. Kenyon ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

To her portrait gallery of women of history (The Emperor's Lady, Emma Marie Antoinette) F. W. Kenyon has now added that ever glamorous figure, Mary Queen of Scots. She's a tempting figure, and her biographer has here made the most of her material, without departing unduly from authenticated facts. Here is a story that needs no fictionizing, for everything is there:- the young widowed queen, the return to a childhood home and a bleak and unfriendly kingdom, the dangerous gift of fase nation, magnetism, that wins love, while alienating those whose jealously is aroused, the years' long struggle for power against vastly stronger advocates, the violence, the romance, the adventure as imprisonment and escape challenge the imagination. Perhaps Charlotte Yonge, with Haknown to History fired my interest long years ago; Helen Hayes' sympathetic portrayal fixed it in later years. In any case, I found Mary of Scotland begulling reading.

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Publisher: Crowell

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1956

Categories: FICTION