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The first dual biography of two of the world’s most remarkable

women—Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots—by one of

Britain’s “best biographers” (The Sunday Times).

In a rich and riveting narrative, Jane Dunn reveals the

extraordinary rivalry between the regal cousins. It is the story of

two queens ruling on one island, each with a claim to the throne of

England, each embodying dramatically opposing qualities of

character, ideals of womanliness (and views of sexuality) and

divinely ordained kingship.

As regnant queens in an overwhelmingly masculine world, they were

deplored for their femaleness, compared unfavorably with each other

and courted by the same men. By placing their dynamic and

ever-changing relationship at the center of the book, Dunn

illuminates their differences. Elizabeth, inheriting a weak,

divided country coveted by all the Catholic monarchs of Europe, is

revolutionary in her insistence on ruling alone and inspired in her

use of celibacy as a political tool—yet also possessed of a deeply

feeling nature. Mary is not the romantic victim of history but a

courageous adventurer with a reckless heart and a magnetic

influence over men and women alike. Vengeful against her enemies

and the more ruthless of the two queens, she is untroubled by

plotting Elizabeth’s murder. Elizabeth, however, is driven to

anguish at finally having to sanction Mary’s death for treason.

Working almost exclusively from contemporary letters and writings,

Dunn explores their symbiotic, though never face-to-face,

relationship and the power struggle that raged between them.

A story of sex, power and politics, of a rivalry unparalleled in

the pages of English history, of two charismatic women—told in a

masterful double biography.

Author's Noteix

The Tudor and Stuart Dynastyx-xi

Chronologyxiii

Prefacexix

ONE

The Fateful Step3

Two

The Disappointment of Kings

THREE

The Education of Princes6

FOUR

Apprenticeship for a Queen

FIVE

Wilfulness and God's Will

SIX

Complicity and Competition

SEVEN

Raison de Coeur: Raison d'tEtat

……

Jane Dunn is the author of a biography of Mary Shelley, a study

of the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, and

most recently of a groundbreaking life of Antonia White. She is a

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Bath,

England.

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Jane Dunn??s Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens

offers a blend of history and biography that traces the "dynamic

interaction" between two of the most powerful women in Western

history. Dunn remains ever aware of the uniqueness of her two

central figures: both women ruled as divinely ordained monarchs in

a male dominated power structure; and both women were from the same

family (Elizabeth I was the granddaughter of Henry VII, and Mary

Queen of Scots the great-granddaughter of King Henry).

By focusing not on pure biography but instead on relationships,

Dunn is able to narrow her book (still mammoth in scope) to the

most salient and interesting events in the two queens?? lives. The

book begins in 1558, the year in which Mary first wed and Elizabeth

assumed the throne of England. Almost immediately the cousins were

embroiled in a conflict that would endure for the remainder of

Mary??s life. A restless, sexually-active Catholic, and leader of

the Scottish people in alliance with France, Mary was ever a

conduit for rumors of rebellion. The "Virgin Queen" Elizabeth used

Mary as a dark reflection to underline her own celibate constancy

as a ruler of law and order.

The pair never met face to face, but as Dunn reveals, their

lives were closely intertwined. After holding Mary in Fotheringhay

prison for nearly two decades, Elizabeth ordered her cousin

executed in 1587. Mary had chosen martyrdom in favor of a

confession to complicity in the Babington assassination plot. In

court, she declared: "I would never make Shipwreck of my Soul by

conspiring the Destruction of my dearest Sister." Though the

ostensible victor, Elizabeth (who had struggled to find a way to

release her cousin while still upholding her own power as queen)

confessed, "I am not free, but a captive." In Elizabeth and

Mary, Dunn has built a rich world that underlines the tragic

struggle between private emotions and the public faces history puts

on them. --Patrick O??Kelley

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“A perceptive, suspenseful account of complex English history. .

. . By the end of this satisfying book, one feels sympathy for both

women, brave queens in an age when ‘no one considered that a woman

could effectively rule alone.’ ” —

The New York Times Book

Review

“Elegant. . . . Dunn demythologizes Elizabeth and Mary. In

humanizing their dynamic and shifting relationship, Dunn describes

it as fueled by both rivalry and their natural solidarity as women

in an overwhlemingly masculine world.” --

Boston

Herald

“A balanced, nuanced, and eminently clear account. . . .

Brilliantly conceived, elegantly executed, and compellingly

readable.” --

Richmond Times-Dispatch

“A wholly engrossing and sumptuous retelling of a tale

that entered legend even before its protagonists were dead.”

--

Newsday

From the Trade Paperback edition.

书籍介绍

The first dual biography of two of the world’s most remarkable women—Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots—by one of Britain’s “best biographers” ( The Sunday Times ).

In a rich and riveting narrative, Jane Dunn reveals the extraordinary rivalry between the regal cousins. It is the story of two queens ruling on one island, each with a claim to the throne of England, each embodying dramatically opposing qualities of character, ideals of womanliness (and views of sexuality) and divinely ordained kingship.

As regnant queens in an overwhelmingly masculine world, they were deplored for their femaleness, compared unfavorably with each other and courted by the same men. By placing their dynamic and ever-changing relationship at the center of the book, Dunn illuminates their differences. Elizabeth, inheriting a weak, divided country coveted by all the Catholic monarchs of Europe, is revolutionary in her insistence on ruling alone and inspired in her use of celibacy as a political tool—yet also possessed of a deeply feeling nature. Mary is not the romantic victim of history but a courageous adventurer with a reckless heart and a magnetic influence over men and women alike. Vengeful against her enemies and the more ruthless of the two queens, she is untroubled by plotting Elizabeth’s murder. Elizabeth, however, is driven to anguish at finally having to sanction Mary’s death for treason. Working almost exclusively from contemporary letters and writings, Dunn explores their symbiotic, though never face-to-face, relationship and the power struggle that raged between them.

A story of sex, power and politics, of a rivalry unparalleled in the pages of English history, of two charismatic women—told in a masterful double biography.