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Margaret Irwin
Full Series List in Order
Elizabeth I
1 - Young Bess (1944)2 - Elizabeth, Captive Princess (1948)
3 - Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain (1953)
Book List in Order: 18 titles
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Still She Wished for Company
- 1924
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The story moves between the 1920s and the 1770s, following two heroines: 20th century Jan Challard, a London girl, and 18th century Juliana Clare, the youngest daughter of an aristocratic Berkshire family. Jan is independent and spirited, but lead...
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These Mortals
- 1925
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There was once a powerful Enchanter of the name of Aldebaran, who had wearied of playing with the lives of men and retired to a palace he had built at the edge of the sea. The palace was of black marble with a green vein, which made it appear as thou...
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Knock Four Times
- 1927
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This, unlike most of Margaret Irwin's books, is not an historical novel. It is a peep-show at recent times, so fantastically gay that this, our London, appears as the iridescent scene of a pantomime or holiday charade. What happened behind the door a...
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Royal Flush
- 1932
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This is not an historical novel in the ordinary sense. It is something new: the life of an actual royal family, whose story is so rich and varied that it falls naturally into the form of a modern novel.
The heroine is Princess Henrietta of ...
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The Gay Galliard
- 1941
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Queen of Scotland at six days old. Queen of France at seventeen years old. A widow at eighteen. The young and trusting Mary, Queen of Scots, is sailing home to her kingdom after years in exile. The danger from her cousin, the English Queen, has not l...
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Young Bess
- 1944
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This eloquent novel explores Queen Elizabeth's life as a child and teenager, opening just before Henry VIII dies and ending when she is nearly 20. Growing up in the shadow of her mother, Anne Boleyn, young Princess Elizabeth has become adept at dodgi...
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Elizabeth, Captive Princess
- 1948
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IN JULY 1553, SIBLING RIVALRY LOOMS PERILOUS, even life-threatening, between the daughters of King Henry VIII. Their brother King Edward is dead, his successor Lady Jane Grey has been beheaded, and one of them, Mary, has just won possession of the th...
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The Proud Servant
- 1949
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James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, the soldier-poet who fought so magnificently and so fruitlessly for his King, Charles I.A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles 1 to "raise Scotland for the King"
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Bloodstock
- 1953
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First published in 1953, the first five stories in this collection are stories from Ireland, exploring the dark history of the country and the dogged optimism of its people.
The following four tales are of the uncanny - striking studies of... -
Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain
- 1953
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Young Elizabeth, half-sister of Queen Mary has a hazardous path ahead of her. Reports of her as a heretic, a rebel and a potential enemy with a spirit full of enchantment have reached the queens reluctant bridegroom, Prince of Spain. Elizabeth must a...
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None So Pretty: Or, the Story of Mr. Cork
- 1953
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None So Pretty describes, with a sensibility and conviction unusual in historical fiction, the life of a young girl brought up in a large, aristocratic, but impecunious family, and married off at an early age to a neighboring squire who nightly drink...
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The Galliard
- Feb-2013
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Queen of Scotland at six days old.Queen of France at seventeen years old.A widow at eighteen.The young and trusting Mary, Queen of Scots, is sailing home to her kingdom after years in exile. The danger from her cousin, the English Queen, has not less...
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Monsieur Seeks A Wife
Margaret Irwin was a prolific and popular author of the mid-20th century. Set in a mythical forest, and presented as a fractured memoirs, 'Monsieur Seeks a Wife' is one of her most intriguing tales. Many of the earliest occult stories, partic...
