The Nine Days' Queen by Richard Davey

The Nine Days' Queen Lady Jane Grey and Her Times by Richard Davey edited, and with Introduction, by Martin Hume, M.A. with Twelve Illustrations The tragedy of Lady Jane Grey is unquestionably one of the most poignant episodes in English history, but its very dramatic completeness and compactness have almost invariably caused its wider significance to be obscured by the element of personal pathos with which it abounds. The sympathetic figure of the studious, saintly maiden, single-hearted in her attachment to the austere creed of Geneva, stands forth alone in a score of books refulgent against the gloomy background of the greed and ambition to which she was sacrificed. The whole drama of her usurpation and its swift catastrophe is usually treated as an isolated phenomenon, the result of one man’s unscrupulous self-seeking; and with the fall of the fair head of the Nine Days’ Queen upon the blood-stained scaffold within the Tower the curtain is rung down and the incident looked upon as fittingly closed by the martyrdom of the gentlest champion of the Protestant Reformation in England. Hardback. Used-good condition - wear and tear around edges, pages are starting to detach from spine. All pages intact. Smoke-free. 50% of the profits from this sale will be donated to a local Friends of the Library. Great Britain British United Kingdom England English History Historical BKNK