Description
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie. A biography as enthralling as a detective story, of the woman who reigned over sixteenth-century Scotland (New York Times Book Review).
In Mary Queen of Scots, John Guy creates an intimate and absorbing portrait of one of history's most famous women, depicting her world and her place in the sweep of history with stunning immediacy. Bringing together all surviving documents and uncovering a trove of new sources for the first time, Guy dispels the popular image of Mary Stuart as a romantic leading lady--achieving her ends through feminine wiles--and establishes her as the intellectual and political equal of Elizabeth I.
Through Guy's pioneering research and superbly readable prose, we come to see Mary as a skillful diplomat, maneuvering ingeniously among a dizzying array of factions that sought to control or dethrone her. It is an enthralling, myth-shattering look at a complex woman and ruler and her time.
"The definitive biography . . . gripping . . . a pure pleasure to read."--Washington Post Book World
First published in 2004 as Queen of Scots
Author: John Guy
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 11/27/2018
Pages: 640
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.70d
ISBN13: 9781328638991
ISBN10: 1328638995
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- History | Europe | Great Britain | Scotland
In Mary Queen of Scots, John Guy creates an intimate and absorbing portrait of one of history's most famous women, depicting her world and her place in the sweep of history with stunning immediacy. Bringing together all surviving documents and uncovering a trove of new sources for the first time, Guy dispels the popular image of Mary Stuart as a romantic leading lady--achieving her ends through feminine wiles--and establishes her as the intellectual and political equal of Elizabeth I.
Through Guy's pioneering research and superbly readable prose, we come to see Mary as a skillful diplomat, maneuvering ingeniously among a dizzying array of factions that sought to control or dethrone her. It is an enthralling, myth-shattering look at a complex woman and ruler and her time.
"The definitive biography . . . gripping . . . a pure pleasure to read."--Washington Post Book World
First published in 2004 as Queen of Scots
Author: John Guy
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 11/27/2018
Pages: 640
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.70d
ISBN13: 9781328638991
ISBN10: 1328638995
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- History | Europe | Great Britain | Scotland
About the Author
John Guy is an award-winning historian of Tudor England. A Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, he is also the author of A Daughter's Love: Thomas More and His Dearest Meg; Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel; and a landmark, bestselling history of Tudor England.