
Homecoming
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In this book, Rosemary Goring tells the story of Mary's Scottish years through the often dramatic and atmospheric locations and settings where the events that shaped her life took place and also examines the part Scotland, and its tumultuous court and culture, played in her downfall. Whether or not Mary Stuart emerges blameless or guilty, in this evocative retelling she can be seen for who she really was.
Locations included:
Linlithgow Palace * Stirling Castle * Dumbarton Castle * Leith * Holyrood Palace * Crichton Castle * Darnaway Castle * Huntly Castle * Spynie Palace * Falkland Palace * Seton Palace * St Andrews and Fife * Dunbar Castle * Edinburgh Castle * Traquair House * Hermitage Castle * Jedburgh, Mary Queen of Scots House * Craigmillar Castle * Edinburgh and Kirk o' Field * Borthwick Castle * Carberry Hill * Lochleven Castle * Langside * Dundrennan Abbey
Reviews / Votes
'Brings into vibrant focus some lesser-known, intimate details about the young queen that make her wholly relatable today' -- Sally McDonald * Sunday Post * 'Like Mary, Homecoming is fresh and flighty, maddening, but irresistibly unbuttoned' -- Jessie Childs * Times * 'If anyone was able to add anything fresh to the story of Mary's life...then it would be Rosemary Goring, who has carved out an eminent role for herself as a highly respected author of books about Scottish history' -- Ken Lussey * Undiscovered Scotland * 'Rosemary's book breathes life into this legendary Queen' * Southern Reporter * 'Whether or not Mary Stuart emerges blameless or guilty, she can be seen for who she really was... thanks to Rosemary's painstaking research' -- Julie Currie * East Fife Mail * 'a nicely measured book, intelligent, engaging and well-balanced' -- Allan Massie * The Scotsman * 'tells the story of Mary's Scottish years through the often dramatic and atmospheric locations and settings where the events that shaped her life took place' * History Scotland Magazine * 'a fresh, richly detailed biography' * Scottish Field * 'Do we really need another book on Mary, Queen of Scots? Yes, because this is the most easily understood of the quagmire that Mary found herself in on her return to Scotland as its queen. Wonderfully written and fascinating for its social history of the era. I can't recommend it highly enough' * The Watermill Bookshop, Aberfeldy * 'In this beautifully crafted and deeply researched biography, Rosemary Goring delivers a fascinating account of the twelve years Mary Stuart resided in her native Scotland, and the events that shaped her life as well as the Scottish nation' * Waterstones Bookseller * 'This is a fascinating account of the Scottish years of a remarkable Queen. Mary's life is vividly and dramatically portrayed here by Rosemary Goring' -- Alexander McCall Smith * Little Brown Book Group * 'Refreshingly, Goring presents a very even-handed view of Mary, as a queen and as a woman, and the book is full of small details that bring her and her world to life' -- Wilson Smith * Book of the Old Edinburgh Club *More details
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Author's Note
- Acknowledgements
- Family Trees
- Map
- Introduction
- 1 'As goodly a child as I have seen'
- 2 'Not as clean as they might be'
- 3 'What snatching and catching, what bruising and broostling'
- 4 'Put all to fyre and swoorde'
- 5 Treaties and Treason
- 6 Mary and le petit roi
- 7 'The very face of heaven'
- 8 An Île de France
- 9 'Ower sair'
- 10 'An orgy of greed'
- 11 The Cock o' the North
- 12 The Lap of Luxury
- 13 Home for 'a country girl'
- 14 'Exercing hir one day richt oppinlie at the feildis with palmall and goif'
- 15 'I died for love of your beauty'
- 16 'More like a woman than a man'
- 17 'God save his grace'
- 18 'Smaller than their own scullery at home'
- 19 'He must learn his duty better'
- 20 'Of truth we are so tired'
- 21 'For that you saved his life . . .'
- 22 'If we lose this one we will make another'
- 23 The Queen's Mire
- 24 'Unless she was free of him she had no pleasure to live'
- 25 'Intolerable stink'
- 26 'How begrimed you are!'
- 27 'Dressed in men's clothes, booted and spurred'
- 28 'Burn the whore'
- 29 'Great, gloomy tower'
- 30 'He who does not keep faith . . .'
- 31 'By battle let us try it!'
- 32 'Three nights living like the owls'
- 33 'No luck ever blessed him who hated Mary Stuart'
- Further Reading
- Index
- Picture Section
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