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Excerpt from Lady Jane Grey: And Her TimesThe royal blood was to prove, to more than one Of these, a fatal heritage. To Mary Stuart it was to bring captivity and death, and by reason Of it Lady Jane Grey was to be forced to play the part Of heroine in one Of the most tragic episodes of the sixteenth century.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Life of Madame RolandIt is not probable that much that is material will be added to What is' now known. To the labours of M. Claud Perroud, the latest editor of her Memoirs and letters, supplemented by copious notes and appendices, any fixture biographer must be largely indebted. His researches appear to have been practically exhaustive, and from the data he supplies, as well as from the testimony of contemporaries, it is possible...

Excerpt from Allegiance, Vol. 1 of 2: A NovelDown among the Surrey hills, not forty miles from London, with all its hurrying life and ceaseless confusion, such a spot is to be found. As you look at Nortons, partly hidden amongst the great trees that surround it, with walls covered with ivy and Virginian creeper, and roof yellow with the lichen and green with the moss of centuries, you feel at once that this is one of Nature's favoured retreats...

Excerpt from The Tragedy of an Army: La Vendée in 1793These apologies may be made for the drastic measures taken by the authorities when first the re bellion broke out. For the wanton ferocity marking later stages of the struggle, more especially the ter rible days when, north of the Loire, the Grande Armée was practically at the mercy of its conquerors, no such excuses can be urged, and the callous dis regard Of human suffering then shown has...

Excerpt from Christina of SwedenWalpole, an heroic murderess. But others, allowing their due weight to extenuating circumstances, Will ab stain from wholesale condemnation. Her own language, in the dedication of her memoirs to God, is, notwith standing the acknowledgment of faults and failings, the language of a saint. Christina, it is certain, was no saint. Whether her record was as dark as it has been considered in some quarters the reader m...