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In this U.K. bestseller, Lady Arbella Stuart emerges as a most contemporary royal, a young woman determined to shape her own destiny in the midst of her plot-ridden world. Arbella was niece to Mary Queen of Scots and cousin to Elizabeth I — who indicated that the teenage Arbella was to be... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Stuart, Arabella, Lady, 1575-1615: Add a description of this character.
- Elizabeth of Hardwick: Countess of Shrewsbury & Arbella's maternal grandmother.
- Queen Elizabeth I
- William Seymour
- Mary Talbot
- Robert Cecil
- Gilbert Talbot
- Walter Ralegh
- Charles Cavendish
- Catherine Grey
- Henry VIII
- William Cavendish
- John Harington
- Henry Cavendish
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
Today, Rufford Abbey is an evocative ruin, incongruously set in a neat country park run by the local authority.
Table of Contents edit
Preface
The Tudor and Stuart Line of Succession
Prologue
Part I: "So good a child": 1574-1587
1. "The hasty marriage"
2. "Most renowned stock"
3. "My jewel Arbell"
4. "Good lady grandmother"
5. "Little Lady Favour"
Part II: "Lawful inheritress": 1587-1602
6. "She will one day be even as I am"
7. "Court-dazzled eyes"
8. "Exile with expectation"
9. "Slanderous and unlikely surmise"
10. "The disabling of Arbella"
11. "This is my prison"
12. "They are dead whom I loved"
13. "Helping myself in this distress"
Part III: "My traveling mind": January-April 1603
14. "This unadvised young woman"
15. "A mind distracted"
16. "So wilfully bent"
17. "A scribbling melancholy"
18. "Disorderly attempts"
19. "That strange outlandish word 'change'"
Part IV: "My own woman"?: 1603-1610
20. "An unknown climate"
21. "Much spoken of"
22. "A confusion of imbassages"
23. "My estate being so uncertain"
24. "To live safe"
25. "Without mate and without estate"
Part V: "A pattern of misfortune": 1610-1615
26. "Affectations of marriage"
27. "Your faithful loving wife"
28. "A poor distressed gentlewoman"
29. "To break prison and make escape"
30. "A spectacle of his Majesty's displeasure"
31. "A bird in a cage"
32. "The most wretched and unfortunate creature"
33. "Far out of frame"
34. "I dare to die"
Epilogue
Appendix A: "One Morley"
Appendix B: Arbella and porphyria
Appendix C: Places and portraits
Family Trees
Source Notes
Select Bibliography
Picture Acknowledgements
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Sarah Gristwood (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Bantam
Country: England
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: Add the page count.
Publisher: Bantam
Country: England
Publication Date: 2001
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Classification edit
- Library of Congress: DA391.1.S9G75
- Dewey: 942.061092
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