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‘It is a story that never fails to compel. And it is always interesting to get a different perspective, as in the work of distinguished French historian, Anka Muhlstein, whose double biography is available for the first time in English, in a fine translation by John Brown. Muhlstein is an excellent writer: the book is effectively structured and easy to read, its characters vividly portrayed.’ (Linda Porter History Today )
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Dual biography investigates perennial question for any ambitious woman: to marry or not to marry. In this major double biography, Anka Muhlstein examines the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth I of England and Mary, Queen of Scots. Uniquely at this time, both of the thrones of the British Isles were held by women, which brought the issue of royal marriages to the fore.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Anka Muhlstein's book does not shed much new light on Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots as people but it does raise the interesting question of the problems of marriage for female rulers in the sixteenth century. It is perhaps ironic that Amazon have mistakenly categorized it under "Mary 1", thus perpetuating the general confusion that Mary Stuart and Mary Tudor are the same person! Muhlstein's book is NOT about Mary 1, so let's hope someone spots the error and potential buyers aren't confused.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
An overview, but not for the initiated!
22 Jun 2008
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This would be a suitable book for a beginning student of Tudor-Stuart history, but is disappointing to one experienced in the area. It does not reach either Antonia Fraser's work Mary Queen of Scots or John Guy's True Life of Mary Stuart,both of which deal extensively with Elizabeth as well, and lacks the scholarship of Allison's Weirs Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley, or Jane Dunn's Elizabeth and Mary, Cousins, Rivals, Queens. As with every work written that involves the unhappy rivalry between the Queens, ( even Fraser's) it has a bias. No book that deals with the history of these two women should be read alone.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Starts out strong and interesting but fades towards the end.
9 Nov 2007
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This book held my interest well until about 75% of the way through it. Then it got dull, and read more like a history text book. Also, a lot of time was spent on her childhood, and adulthood, but once she reached old age, very little time is spent on her and more instead on the others in her life. One minute I was reading about her declining years, the next, she was already dead and the book was talking about anyone else but her. So so book, I'd recommend waiting for the cheaper paperback edition and buying that used. Also didn't tell me anything that I didn't already know - no new insights or information.
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