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History Girls: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Historiography and the Case of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 36, 2008
- pp. 1-23
- 10.1353/chl.0.0012
- Article
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Abstract
This essay argues that the compelling figure of Mary, Queen of Scots represented in conventional schoolroom textbooks inspired Jane Austen, Queen Victoria and Marjory Fleming to write counter-narratives about her life. These examples of private writing both absorb and resist the ideologies of nation, gender and causation that official histories promote.
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