Elizabeth Byrd has 13 books on Goodreads with ratings. Elizabeth Byrd’s most popular book is Immortal Queen: A Novel Of Mary, Queen of Scots. Family: Born Sarah Elizabeth Evelyn Byrd on December 8, , in St. Louis, MO; died , in Tucson, AZ; daughter of Joseph Hunter Byrd (an entrepreneur and mining promoter) and Emma (Howard) Byrd; married Don Phares. Education: Attended New York University, Elizabeth is the elder sister of composer Joseph Byrd (Decem) and physician Dr. Ruddell Byrd.4/5. FIRST EDITION. IMMORTAL QUEEN, Ballantine, , first edition, just about fine in near fine pictorial dust-wrapper. A novel of Mary Queen of Scots. One of just a handful of Ballantine hard-covers with no soft-cover counter-part during this time in the publishers history. A scarce book. From the library of the Ballantine bibliographer.
A novel by Elizabeth Byrd In protestant Scotland, Mary was to be confronted with fire and brimstone preacher, John Knox, an ardent calvinist, who would brook no tolerance towards papists. Mary, an ardent catholic and well educated woman, wanted everyone to worship as their conscience dictated. Her Immortal Queen novel about Mary Queen of Scots was written in while she was still in the USA! She shares her birthday with Mary and her mother had the same birthday as Elizabeth I and she is descended from John Campbell, first Earl of Loudoun, Lord Chancellor of Scotland! She had been in Scotland in the 50s researching the Mary novel. Assassination attempts were mostly a part of the much larger plots to remove Elizabeth as queen, and replace her with her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots. Such plots required Elizabeth's death as a matter of course, the major ones being the Northern Earls Rebellion of , the Ridolfi Plot of , the Throckmorton Plot of and the.
This is a stirring, well written work of historical fiction about Mary, Queen of Scots. Drawing a three dimensional portrait of this tragic queen, whose reign was all too short, the author sets the mood for the turbulent time and place that was sixteenth century Scotland, replete with intrigues and almost unimaginable skulduggery. Elizabeth Byrd has 13 books on Goodreads with ratings. Elizabeth Byrd’s most popular book is Immortal Queen: A Novel Of Mary, Queen of Scots. FIRST EDITION. IMMORTAL QUEEN, Ballantine, , first edition, just about fine in near fine pictorial dust-wrapper. A novel of Mary Queen of Scots. One of just a handful of Ballantine hard-covers with no soft-cover counter-part during this time in the publishers history. A scarce book. From the library of the Ballantine bibliographer.
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