Volume 13, Number 8 · November 6, 1969
A Discordant Queen
By J.P. Kenyon
Mary Queen of Scots
by Antonia Fraser
Delacorte, 613 pp., $10.00
Lady Antonia Fraser is young, beautiful, and rich, an earl's daughter married to a busy and successful politician, the mother of a large family; yet she has surmounted all these handicaps to authorship to produce a first-rate historical biography. I do not mean to sound sarcastic or patronizing. Only a practicing historian knows the hours of boring and backbreaking labor that go into a book like this; and in a well-trampled field like the life of Mary Stuart the burden of such labor is not lightened by the hope of some exciting find.
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