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Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, became a figure of great interest to Byrd when she was 7 years old, and learned that her birthday was the same as Mary's, and her mother Emma's birthday was the same as Queen Elizabeth I's. She began collecting biographies on the life of Stuart and wrote a play about her when she was 12. [2]
Tale Collections and Gift Books edited by Arthur: The Baltimore Book (1838) (ed. with W. H. Carpenter) The Snow Flake: A Gift for Innocence and Beauty (1846) A Christmas Box for the Sons and Daughters of Temperance (1847) Our Children: How Shall We Save Them (1850) (ed. under the name James Nack) The Brilliant: A Gift Book for 1850 (1850)
Mary of York (11 August 1467 – 23 May 1482) was the second daughter of King Edward IV of England and his queen consort Elizabeth Woodville. The first years of Mary's life were spent in close connection with her older sister Elizabeth of York (later Queen consort of England), who was eighteen months older. The princesses were raised and ...
Peacock Queen (published in US as The Virgin Queen) (1972) - on Elizabeth I of England; Elizabeth the Beloved (1972) - on Elizabeth of York; Jewel of the Greys (1972) (published in US as Destiny's Lady) - on Lady Jane Grey; Flawed Enchantress (1973) (in another edition as So Fair and Foul a Queen (1974)) - on Mary, Queen of Scots
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Her first book, Mary Tudor: The First Queen was published in 2007. It was a biography of Queen Mary I of England presented a view of Mary as a decisive and clear-headed ruler, and a skilled political and diplomatic operator. [2] In 2010, her second book Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr was published. [3]
Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, CH, DBE, FRSL (née Pakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction.She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter (1930–2008), and prior to his death was also known as Lady Antonia Pinter.
Suddenly impoverished, Robinson was forced to work as a common mucker in a gold mine – the lone woman in a motley crew of men – to make ends meet. At night, she continued her quest to become a writer, typing by the light of a kerosene lamp on an ancient typewriter she borrowed from the town postmistress . [ 5 ]