The controversial queen of Scotland (1561-1567) who found a number of champions in the romantic era; Sir Walter Scott treats her sympathetically in The Abbott (1820).

REFERENCES TO Queen Mary of Scotland:

Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson, 27 November 1808 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)

William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 19 April 1815 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

Maria Dundas (Graham) Callcott to John Murray, 9 December 1815 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 8 January 1818 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 16 October 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 25 October 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Sir Walter Scott to Lord Montagu of Boughton, 17 July 1823 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Sir Walter Scott to John Gibson Lockhart, 14 July 1828 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

John Herman Merivale to Francis Hodgson, [13 May 1838] in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)