title: Mary Queen of Scots: Romance and Nation
author: Jayne Lewis
description: "A very good book...struck out on a new and very original line. Historians and literary scholars will certainly find it important."<br />-Dr. Jenny Wormald, St. Hilda's College, Oxford <br />"Interesting and impressive...at the cutting edge of works on Mary Queen of Scots."<br />-Robin S. Oggins, SUNY, Binghamton <br />"Jayne Lewis brilliantly constructs Mary Stuart's 'dream-life' from the moment of her beheading to the birth of the modern era. This is post-modernism at its best: reflexive, thoughtful and poetic."<br />-Stella Tillyard, European University Institute, Florence <br />
zlib_text: **The Scotsman and**  
   **the Spinster**
  
   **Joan Overfield**
  
  The Scotsman and the Spinster
  
  Joan Overfield
  
   _ **Copyright 2000, 2014 by Joan Overfield**_
  
   _This book is dedicated to the memory of Robert Bush. With love, from Anthony
  and Tyler Iszler_
  
   _This book is also lovingly dedicated to my brother, Larry Blaine Overfield._  
   _February 19, 1959-June 26, 2013._  
   _To the best little brother ever_.
  
   **"DO YOU KNOW, MISS TERRINGTON, WHAT I THOUGHT THE VERY FIRST TIME I CLAPPED
  EYES ON YOU?"**
  
  She looked curious, and then a warm glow of color infused her face as she
  apparently recalled that the first place he had seen her was in his
  bedchamber. "I am sure I do not," she said, her eyes fixed at a point
  somewhere over his shoulder.
  
  "What I thought, Miss Terrington," he continued, "was that you looked like an
  elf. What the crofters call a _síthiche_ , a mischievous sprite come from the
  glens to lead me back along the Low Road to the Highlands. Then you opened
  your lips to bark o