Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Tables and Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. The Contributors xv
6. Abbreviations and Conventions xviii
7. Introduction The Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots: Themes and Paradigms 1
8. Part One Mary in Contemporary Objects
9. 1 Damnatio Memoriae: Mary, Queen of Scots’ Iconography and the Ham House Portrait of Sir John Maitland of Thirlestane 31
10. 2 New Perspectives on the Sheffield Portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots including the Discovery of a New, Related, Contemporary Portrait 53
11. 3 Memorialising (in) Mary, Queen of Scots’ Books of Hours 84
12. 4 The Afterlives of Mary’s Letters 106
13. Part Two Mary in Literature and History
14. 5 Editing and Collecting Mary, Queen of Scots in the Eighteenth Century: James Anderson (1662–1728) and Dr William Hunter (1718–83) 123
15. 6 The Battle for Memory: The Reception of Mary, Queen of Scots in the Eighteenth-century British Periodical Press 142
16. 7 ‘Deeply impressed upon the imagination’: The Return of Mary in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 160
17. 8 ‘A tracked and hunted creature’: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Histories of David Hay Fleming, Andrew Lang, Gordon Donaldson and Antonia Fraser 179
18. 9 Re-imagining Mary, Queen of Scots in Contemporary Scottish Women’s Writing 197
19. Part Three Collecting and Displaying Mary
20. 10 Collecting and Exhibiting Marian Objects in Nineteenth-century Britain 219
21. 11 ‘The most interesting apartment in Scotland’: The History and Presentation of Mary, Queen of Scots’ Chambers at the Palace of Holyroodhouse 241
22. 12 Materialising Mary in a Museum: Marian Objects and Authenticity 267
23. Part Four Mary in Media
24. 13 Minstrels of Maelstroms: Mary’s Musical Afterlives 291
25. 14 The Transformations of Mary, Queen of Scots in Early Cinema, 1895–1923 317
26. 15 Long Live the Queen: The Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots in Contemporary Visual Culture 343
27. INDEX 371