Antonia Fraser,
Mary Queen of Scots (New York: Delacorte Press, 1969). The best biography to date, at once scholarly and romantic .
Gordon Donaldson,
The First Trial of Mary, Queen of Scots (New York: Stein & Day, 1969). A thorough study of the York, Westminster, and Hampton Court hearings, with a somewhat less sympathetic view of Mary than Fraser’s .
Ian Cowan, ed.,
The Enigma of Mary Stuart (London: Victor Gollancz, 1971). A useful collection of too-short excerpts from various works on Mary, from the sixteenth century to the twentieth .
Jean Plaidy,
Mary Queen of Scots (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975). Not surprisingly, since Plaidy is also a best-selling writer of romance fiction (under the pseudonym Victoria Holt), this biography presents the Mary of romance, a woman who unwisely let her heart prevail over her head.
Jenny Wormald,
Mary Queen of Scots (London: George Philip, 1988). A portrait of Mary as abject failure, so devoid of political judgment and will that she drove her opponents to take action against her .
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