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eBooks di Titolo M di Marjorie Bowen editi da Librorium Editions
Mary Queen of Scots. E-book. Formato EPUB Marjorie Bowen - Librorium Editions, 2023 -
MARY STEWART was born at Linlithgow on December 8th, the Festival of the Immaculate Conception, 1542, sole heiress of one of the most splendid families, and one of the greatest misfortunes in Europe. The Crown of Scotland had been in the possession of the family of Stewart for more than two hundred years, for it came with the marriage of Margery, daughter of Robert Bruce, to Walter Stewart in 1315. All of the monarchs of this family had been notable men, expressing in their persons and their actions the highest ideals of the times in which they lived. Nearly all of them had suffered violent deaths.JAMES I, the graceful and elegant author of “The King’s Quair,” and by some considered the ablest of the Scottish sovereigns, was brutally murdered by a conspiracy of his nobles in February, 1446.
Moss Rose. E-book. Formato EPUB Marjorie Bowen - Librorium Editions, 2023 -
“You look as if you was going to cut your throat.”“Funny, Min, I was thinking of it.”“Got any beer or gin — a mouthful of the real ‘knock me down’?”“No, I haven’t.”“Oh, ain’t it shocking. Any luck for the pantomime?”“No — I’m not sure—”“I’ve had an offer for one dance and the chorus — but only twenty-five shillings.”“I can’t get that, I don’t think. Well, what did you come in here for? I’m thinking of suicide, I tell you; a pity you disturbed me. Oh, I’m tired.”“Who isn’t?”Minnie Palmer flopped on to the broken stool inside the dressing-room underneath the stage; her dirty white muslin skirts and the tarnished spangles on her tattered bodice were crudely fashioned to represent the petals and calyx of a lily, a torn wig was pulled over her head, her small features were heavily outlined in cheap greasepaint.