Article: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Casket Letters.(Book Review)

Article: Who wrote the casket letters?
Calliope;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... have no signatures, although Mary normally signed her correspondence ... poets dismissed the idea that Mary, an accomplished poet, would ... originals, the authorship of the Casket Letters is still questionable. Most probably, Mary did write some of the letters ...

Encyclopedia entry: Casket Letters
The Oxford Companion to British History;      334 words ...Casket Letters. The contents of a small ... allegedly incriminating Mary Stuart and her lover Bothwell ... consist of eight letters from Mary to Bothwell, a sequence of ... contracts for the marriage of Mary to Bothwell. The authenticity ...

Article: Mary Queen of Scots: An Illustrated Life/Catholic Queen, ...
The Catholic Historical Review;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... unsolved murder in 1567 and the Casket Letters that allegedly proved Mary's complicity in it, merely ... mainstream of scholarship: the Casket Letters are forgeries and there is thus no evidence that Mary was involved in the murder ...

Article: Mary Queen of Scots.(Book review)
Renaissance Quarterly;  March 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Here, Warnicke examines the Casket Letters, Mary's continual illnesses ... Plot, which ultimately cost Mary her life. Warnicke painstakingly shows that the Casket Letters, used to discredit Mary and implicate her in the ...

Article: New book clears Mary of Darnley murder
The Scotsman;  February 27, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Darnley. She believes Mary's name was blackened ... veracity of the famous "Casket Letters" which were produced ... subsequently gathered against Mary. "The Casket Letters which were supposedly ... Bothwell's bed, which Mary had written to him ...

Article: There's something missing about Mary; She had style and ...
The Evening Standard (London, England);  January 19, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... sterling]20) ANOTHER book about Mary Queen of Scots? Well, at ... even wants - to know about Mary Queen of Scots. He brings ... detailed detective work on the Casket Letters is masterly; his thesis is ... plot, which he does not think Mary was involved in. He stresses ...

Article: There's still something about Mary; REVIEW.
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  January 11, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... this fascinating biography, Mary Queen of Scots' life was ... invisible ink. Two books about Mary Queen of Scots came out last ... knowhow to bear on the infamous Casket Letters, a clutch of documents allegedly written by Mary that implicated her as one ...