Legacy (1985) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Mary Stuart: Add a description of this character.
• Elizabeth
• William Cecil
• Walsingham
• Robert Dudley
• Anne Boleyn
• Mrs. Ashley
• Mary Tudor
• Mr. Parry

Quotes edit see section history

• “Love no one, trust no one, for all affection is false.”

  Elizabeth Tudor (Elizabeth I)

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• “…it is not my desire to live nor to reign longer than my life and reign shall be for your good. Though you have had, and may have, many princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, yet you never had, nor shall have, any that will love you better.”

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• A whole era dies with her, my friend—an era, the like of which will not be seen in England again.”

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• She knew how to stoop to conquer, how to turn defeat into resounding victory.

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• “I am a friend not won with trifles nor lost with the like.”

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• Perhaps in every thousand years the world produced one man or woman to live in incandescence, enshrined within their span of time. What else would men call this era but Elizabethan?

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• “We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

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• Suspicion, like bread, rises rapidly in a warm environment.

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• “She was more than a man and sometimes, in truth, less than a woman.” —Sir Robert Cecil

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• England
• London
• France
• Spain
• Europe
• Norfolk
• Scotland
• Ireland
• Northumberland
• Netherlands
• Wanstead
• Guildford
• Greenwich
• Southampton
• Tilbury
• Bedingfield
• Tower
• Hertford
• Rome
• Alençon
• Cadiz
• Winchester
• Richmond
• Whitehall
• Ashridge
• Channel
• Windsor
• Paris
• Hatfield
• Suffolk
• Woodstock
• Chartley
• Calais
• Donnington
• Noailles
• Arundel

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Table of Contents edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Susan Kay (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• Betty Trask Award (1985, #1)
• Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 823.914

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Historical
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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