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Antonia White: A Lifeby Jane DunnISBN 1860497950 (1-86049-795-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Company
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Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queensby Jane DunnISBN 0006385095 (0-00-638509-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens'Book summary:Jane Dunns 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 Marys 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 OKelley [via]
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- Elizabeth and Mary : Cousins, Rivals, Queens: ISBN 000653192X (0-00-653192-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens: ISBN 0007157703 (0-00-715770-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens: ISBN 0375708200 (0-375-70820-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books - Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens: ISBN 0002000407 (0-00-200040-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens: ISBN 0375408983 (0-375-40898-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens: ISBN 0002571501 (0-00-257150-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens: ISBN 0006385095 (0-00-638509-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
- Elizabeth and Mary : Cousins, Rivals, Queens: ISBN 000653192X (0-00-653192-X)
Moon in Eclipse: A Life of Mary Shelleyby Jane DunnISBN 0297773836 (0-297-77383-6)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Read My Heart: A Love Story in England's Age of Revolutionby Jane DunnISBN 1400042836 (1-4000-4283-6)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Read My Heart: A Love Story in England's Age of Revolution'Book summary:When Sir William Temple (162899) and Dorothy Osborne (162795) began their passionate love affair, civil war was raging in Britain, and their familiesparliamentarians and royalists, respectivelydid everything to keep them apart. Yet the couple went on to enjoy a marriage and a sophisticated partnership unique in its times. Surviving the political chaos of the era, the Black Plague, the Great Fire of London, and the deaths of all their nine children, William and Dorothy made a life together for more than forty years.
Drawing upon extensive research and the Temples own extraordinary writingsincluding Dorothys dazzling letters, hailed by Virginia Woolf as one of the glories of English literatureJane Dunn gives us an utterly captivating dual biography, the first to examine Dorothys life as an intellectual equal to her diplomat husband. While she has been known to posterity as the very symbol of upper-class seventeenth-century domestic English life, Dunn makes clear that Dorothy was a woman of great complexity, of passion and brilliance, noteworthy far beyond her role as a wife and mother. The remarkable story of William and Dorothys life togetherilluminated here by the authors insight and her vivid sense of place and timeoffers a rare glimpse into the heart and spirit of one of the most turbulent and intriguing eras in British history. [via]More editions of Read My Heart: A Love Story in England's Age of Revolution:
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The Temples: Family Passions in Restoration Englandby Jane DunnISBN 0007182201 (0-00-718220-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Very Close Conspiracyby Jane DunnISBN 0712674683 (0-7126-7468-3)
Softcover, Random House
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- Very Close Conspiracy: ISBN 0224022342 (0-224-02234-2)
Hardcover, Random House - A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf: ISBN 0316196533 (0-316-19653-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - Very Close Conspiracy: ISBN 0712651187 (0-7126-5118-7)
Hardcover, Random House - Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell : A Very Close Conspiracy: ISBN 0712674683 (0-7126-7468-3)
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- Very Close Conspiracy: ISBN 0224022342 (0-224-02234-2)
Virginia Woolfby Jane DunnISBN 1854103253 (1-85410-325-3)
Hardcover, Aurum Press, Limited
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Virginia Woolf: An Illustrated Anthologyby Jane DunnISBN 0517142511 (0-517-14251-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Wool from Sheepby Althea, Jane DunnISBN 0521319323 (0-521-31932-3)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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