WORLD BOOKS • LONDON 1971, str.638, stan db- (przykurzona podniszczona obwoluta) ISBN One of the most romantic and controversial figures of British history, Mary Queen of Scots has always captured the popular imagination. Yet, until now, no general biography based on the detailed research of the last fifty years has been written. Antonia Fraser spent four years writing this tragic and dramatic life. She studied the published and manuscript sources in Scotland, France and England and visited every important place connected with Mary. During the course of her research she became fascinated by the development of Mary's character - how this beautiful girl, so gay and pleasure-seeking in youth, developed in middle age into a woman capable of dying one of the most noble deaths in history. It is not the least of Antonia Fraser's achievements that in this remarkable book she has provided a moving answer to the question 'what was Mary Queen of Scots reallv like?' THE AUTHOR Lady Antonia Fraser is thirty-six. She is married to Hugh Fraser, the Conservative M.P. for Stafford and Stone. They have six children whose ages range from twelve to two years old, and live in London and Inver-nesshire. Antonia Fraser read history at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She has contributed articles to a number of magazines, has appeared on television, and has written on children's subjects; this is her first historical biography. The engraving on the front of the jacket is by Hieronymus Cock, and was published in Antwerp in 1559. It is reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum. Jacket design by Sarah Whitcombe Język angielski
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