Title: Complete and Fascinating
Product review: Fraser's biography of Mary Stuart remains the standard against which others are measured -- and with good reason. It is complete; containing all details available from the historical record at the time of the writing: 1969. And it presents a good case for the redemption of Mary's reputation. Though at times, Fraser can seem an apologist for Reformation-period English Catholics, as she does in her excellent work on the gunpowder plot.The book did for me what I most wanted it too; provide the full story on Mary, the Scottish-French connection, Marie de Guise, and the importance of all of these in the history of Elizabeth I. I found this book a great supplement to my other reading in Tudor history. The book is dense with detail -- but very readable and enjoyable.
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