The Nine Days' Queen: Lady Jane Grey and Her Times by Richard Davey. 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 ...
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The Nine Days' Queen: Lady Jane Grey and Her Times by Richard Davey. 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.
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First edition. Deep blue-green cloth with spine lettering gilt; top edge gilt, fore edge uncut; 372 pps. with index and appendix of iconography of Lady Jane Grey and her family, etc. Twelve monochrome plates. A tight, generally fine copy with miniscule bumping to the tips and a tint scuff to the front gutter edge. The frontis portrait of Grey shows some creasing and soiling along its outer edge, not affecting the image.
