Article: Mary Queen of Scots.(Book review)

Retha M. Warnicke. Mary Queen of Scots.

Routledge Historical Biographies. New York: Routledge, 2006. xii + 304 pp. + 9 b/w plates. index. illus. tbls. chron. bibl. $19.70. ISBN: 0-415-29183-6.

In this highly detailed biography of Scotland's only queen regnant, Retha Warnicke examines the life of Mary Stewart through the lens of a cultural historian rather than a political historian. Consequently, Warnicke has attempted to distance her own work from that of earlier biographers such as Antonia Fraser, Jenny Wormald, and John Guy.

After the introduction, Warnicke divides her book into nine chapters dealing with various periods of Mary's life. ...

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