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Blanchard, Ursula (Fictitious character) Fiction Countess of Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Hardwick Talbot 1527?-1608 Fiction Falconry Fiction Great Britain History Elizabeth, 1558-1603 Fiction I, Queen of England Elizabeth 1533-1603 Fiction Queen of Scots Mary 1542-1587 Fiction Queens Fiction Queens Scotland Fiction Scotland History Mary Stuart, 1542-1567 Fiction Spy storiesHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: In 1582 thirteen-year-old Emilia Bassano is a lute player and aspiring playwright who stumbles on a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, and is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to go to the castle where Mary Queen of Scots is being held and discover who is responsible for the plot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOPBuckley, Fiona.
Summary: Ursula, traveling to the Netherlands to escort her foster daughter to meet her suitor, also investigates whether or not a wealthy Italian banker is plotting to put Mary, Queen of Scots on the English throne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCGregory, Philippa.
Summary: Presents a tale inspired by the story of Mary, Queen of Scots, in a work that follows the doomed monarch's long imprisonment in the household of the Earl of Shrewsbury and his spying wife, Bess.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: A fictional portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, follows the tragic character from her youth, through her tumultuous adulthood at the center of political intrigue, betrayal, rivalry, and murder, to her execution, ordered by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, in a meticulously detailed historical novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 1996
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Summary: The courageous, spirited Mary Queen of Scots tells her own story--from her youth as a young girl married to the invalid young King of France to her short reign as Queen of Scotland and her tragic imprisonment by her ruthless, merciless cousin Queen Elizabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIBuckley, Fiona.
Summary: Happily married to her third husband, Hugh Stannard, lady-in-waiting Ursula Blanchard is hoping to give up her undercover work for Queen Elizabeth l in order to enjoy domestic bliss. But when Hugh unwittingly endangers possession of his ancestral home, Ursula is forced to take on a seemingly hopeless - but handsomely paid - private assignment, which the Queen spots is the perfect cover for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCGregory, Philippa.
Summary: This dazzling novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory presents a new and unique view of one of history's most intriguing, romantic, and maddening heroines. Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary, Queen of Scots, who trusted Queen Elizabeth's promise of sanctuary when she fled from rebels in Scotland and then found herself imprisoned as the guest of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GreHarper, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: "Harper's fast-paced, suspenseful ninth historical (after 2005's The Fatal Fashione) finds Elizabeth I beset by Spanish antagonism at sea and by political rivals in England, especially the scheming Mary, Queen of Scots, and the rebellious northern lords. While on a summer outing in 1569 with her new ally, Francis Drake, an arrow barely misses Elizabeth, claiming the life of her falconer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2007