Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart

Zusatztext another useful primary source for the historian! offering insights into the thinking of a Renaissance claimant to the Englsih throne. Klappentext This volume reconstructs the personal and public drama enacted in the life of Lady Arbella Stuart, claimant to the English throne. Marrying against King James's edict, Arbella attempted to flee to France but was captured and imprisoned. Her letters and the records associated with her case (some of them newly unearthed) reveal a rhetorically-gifted writer whose considerable verbal talent was applied almost exclusively to the reversal of her plight, though in the end her efforts proved unsuccessful. Zusammenfassung Lady Arbella Stuart, claimant to the English throne, traditionally has been portrayed as either a hero or fool for marrying against King James's edict and attempting to flee from France. This is Stuart's story as told in the more than 100 letters she wrote to her husband, relatives and friends.

Product details

• Authors: Arabella Stuart, Arbella Stuart, Lady Arabella Stuart, Lady Arbella Stuart
• Assisted by: Sara Jayne Steen (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1994
• EAN: 9780195087185
• ISBN: 978-0-19-508718-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Women Writers in English 1350-1850; Women Writers in English 1350-; Women Writers in English 1350-1850
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History