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Unknown to History
Charlotte Mary Yonge
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During the captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots, plots, conspiracies, and intrigue engulfed the country. Catholics were apprehensive of Protestants; Scots mistrusted the English. No one felt completely safe. Into the midst of this turmoil was thrust a tiny baby girl, rescued from a storm-tossed sea, the solitary survivor of the wreck of the Bride of Dunbar. Was this unfortunate child - adopted and raised in the bosom of a loving family - connected to the displaced and unhappy Queen Mary? Would she eventually find herself at the mercy of the Elizabeth, Queen of England, or would she find happy bliss with her one true love?
During the captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots, plots, conspiracies, and intrigue engulfed the country. Catholics were apprehensive of Protestants; Scots mistrusted the English. No one felt completely safe. Into the midst of this turmoil was thrust a tiny baby girl, rescued from a storm-tossed sea, the solitary survivor of the wreck of the Bride of Dunbar. Was this unfortunate child - adopted and raised in the bosom of a loving family - connected to the displaced and unhappy Queen Mary? Would she eventually find herself at the mercy of the Elizabeth, Queen of England, or would she find happy bliss with her one true love?
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However Richard was still anxious to keep his son engaged at a distance from Sheffield. There was great rejoicing and thankfulness when one of the many messengers constantly passing between London and Sheffield brought a packet from Humfrey, whose ship had put into the Thames instead of the Humber.
The packet contained one of the black stones which the science of the time expected to transmute into gold, also some Esquimaux trinkets made of bone, and a few shells. These were for the mother and Cis, and there were also the tusks of a sea-elephant which Humfrey would lay up at my Lord's London lodgings till his father sent tidings what should be done with them, and whether he should come home at once by sea to Hull, or if, as he much desired to do, he might join an expedition which was fitting out for the Spanish Main, where he was assured that much more both of gold and honour was to be acquired than in the cold northern seas, where no. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Charlotte Mary Yonge is famed for her young-adult novels with a Christian message. ‘Unknown To History’ is an imaginative reconstruction of the imprisonment of Mary Stuart in Chartley Manor in England. Although the basic premise is far-fetched, in essence the story could have been grounded in histor
This book has really stayed with me, though from further study it seems to be a highly colored rendition of the history.
A long book, and verging towards tedious as the end approached, but a believable and interesting premise, well handled. Weaves a memorable picture of the times and the people involved, and gives what seems a fair portrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Yonge may not have the stylistic grace of a Conrad, Dickens, or Elizabeth Bronte, but she creates realistic characters as well as any of them. I am old fashioned, and prefer my fiction to have a strong moral element. Some may find Yonge's depiction of heroes as unrealistically saintly. Today, people
Historical fiction which brings to life the many factors of living in the middle of life or death struggle between Catholic and Protestant forces in Queen Elizabeth’s England. The story has a young heroine in Cicely Talbot, a baby rescued from the sea and raised in a Protestant home, but actually a
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