Stewarts on the dole
Rosalind Mitchison, 10 November 1988
Bonnie Prince Charlie
by Rosalind Marshall.
HMSO, 208 pp., £8.50, April 1988,0 11 493420 7 Show More
by Rosalind Marshall.
HMSO, 208 pp., £8.50, April 1988,
Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Biography
by Susan Maclean Kybett.
Unwin Hyman, 343 pp., £12.95, April 1988,0 04 440213 9 Show More
by Susan Maclean Kybett.
Unwin Hyman, 343 pp., £12.95, April 1988,
Charles Edward Stuart: A Tragedy in Many Acts
by Frank McLynn.
Routledge, 640 pp., £24.95, September 1988,0 415 00272 9 Show More
by Frank McLynn.
Routledge, 640 pp., £24.95, September 1988,
Mary Queen of Scots: A Study in Failure
by Jenny Wormald.
George Philip, 206 pp., £14.95, March 1988,0 540 01131 2 Show More
by Jenny Wormald.
George Philip, 206 pp., £14.95, March 1988,
Mary Stewart: Queen in Three Kingdoms
edited by Michael Lynch.
Blackwell, 238 pp., £25, July 1988,0 631 15263 6 Show More
edited by Michael Lynch.
Blackwell, 238 pp., £25, July 1988,
The Shadow of a Crown: The Life Story of James II of England and VII of Scotland
by Meriol Trevor.
Constable, 320 pp., £15, June 1988,0 09 467850 2 Show More
by Meriol Trevor.
Constable, 320 pp., £15, June 1988,
The Scottish Tory Party: A History
by Gerald Warner.
Weidenfeld, 247 pp., £12.95, May 1988,9780297791010 Show More
by Gerald Warner.
Weidenfeld, 247 pp., £12.95, May 1988,
The Elgins, 1766-1917: A Tale of Aristocrats, Proconsuls and their Wives
by Sydney Checkland.
Aberdeen University Press, 303 pp., £25, April 1988,0 08 036395 4 Show More
by Sydney Checkland.
Aberdeen University Press, 303 pp., £25, April 1988,
“... The other royal biography here, one notes with some relief, does not relate to an anniversary. Meriol Trevor writes a sympathetic but supremely boring account of James II and VII’s life, in the way that she might study a minor country gentleman, with no appreciation of what it was like to rule in a century witnessing a major change from one kind of ... ”
