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England's Lost Queen

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An edition of Arbella (2003)

Arbella

England's Lost Queen

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An extraordinary life lost in history: the compelling biography of Arbella Stuart spans both Tudor and Stuart courts and encompasses espionage, a clandestine marriage, imprisonment and eventual death in the Tower of London.
Arbella Stuart was the niece of Mary Queen of Scots and first cousin to James VI of Scotland. Acknowledged as her heir by Elizabeth 1, Arbella's right to the English throne was equaled only by James. Raised under close supervision by her grandmother, but still surrounded by plots -- most of them Roman Catholic in origin -- she became an important pawn in the struggle for succession, particularly during the long, tense period when Elizabeth lay dying. The accession of her cousin James thrust her into the colourful world of his extravagant and licentious court, and briefly gave her the independence she craved at the heart of Jacobean society. At thirty-five, however, Arbella's fate was sealed when she risked everything to make a forbidden marriage, for which she was forced to flee England. She was intercepted off the coast of Calais and escorted to the Tower where she died some years later, alone and, most probably, from starvation.

This is a powerful and vivid portrait of a woman forced to carve a precarious path through turbulent years. But more remarkably, the turmoil of Arbella's life never prevented her from claiming the right to love freely, to speak her wrongs loudly, and to control her own destiny. For fans of historical biography, Arbella is possibly the most romantic heroine of them all. Hers was a story just waiting to be told.

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Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Pages
464

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Arbella: England's Lost Queen
2015, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Arbella: England's Lost Queen
May 12, 2005, Houghton Mifflin
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Arbella: England's lost queen
2005, Houghton Mifflin
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Arbella: England's lost queen
2003, Bantam
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First Sentence

"TODAY, RUFFORD ABBEY IS AN EVOCATIVE RUIN, INCONGRUOUSLY set in a neat country park run by the local authority."

Table of Contents

The Tudor and Stuart line of succession
Part one : 'So good a child' : 1574-1587
Part two : 'Lawful inheritress' : 1587-1602
Part three : 'My travelling mind' : January-April 1603
Part four : 'My own woman'? : 1603-1610
Part five : 'A pattern of misfortune': 1610-1615
Epilogue
Appendixes.
'One Morley'
Arbella and porphyria
Places and portraits
Family trees

Edition Notes

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Boston, New York

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xii, 450 p.
Number of pages
464
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7604846M
ISBN 10
0618341331
ISBN 13
9780618341337
Library Thing
99157
Goodreads
690539

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August 6, 2010 Edited by IdentifierBot added LibraryThing ID
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April 29, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from amazon.com record.