Embroidering Her Truth
Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power

I deeply loved this book. I’ve been obsessed with this time period since i was a little girl and always had a fascination with Mary Queen of Scots, but i will admit that most of my knowledge came from pop culture and tidbits picked up from learning about the Tudors. This book was absolutely made for......more

This book contains: - A fairly engaging biographic sketch of Mary with a laudable feminist perspective. - Various things that are interesting, especially about customs and attitudes at these Renaissance courts. - Many things that are speculative, and I did not like that the author sometimes presents......more

I loved Clare Hunter's previous book Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle, so was very excited to purchase this book (which is weird for me, I usually borrow everything from the library). I was not disappointed! I knew very little of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, a......more

Instead of digging into Prince Harry's memoir, I delved five centuries back into (in my opinion) a much more tragic royal tale – the one of Mary, Queen of Scots. In contrast to other biographies, this book is so much more than just a dry historical account – so much so, that I struggle to describe i......more