False Mary by Alexander McCall Smith
Mary Peebles, or “False Mary” as she came to be known, is one of the most unusual figures of Scottish sixteenth-century history. She was the daughter ...
Imagined Lives of Unknown People
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Eight internationally acclaimed authors have invented imaginary biographies and character sketches based on fourteen unidentified portraits. Who are these men and women, why were they painted, and why do they now find themselves in the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery? With fictional letters, diaries, mini-biographies and memoirs, Imagined Lives creates vivid stories about these unknown sitters from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Courtesy of the National Trust.
False Mary by Alexander McCall Smith
Mary Peebles, or “False Mary” as she came to be known, is one of the most unusual figures of Scottish sixteenth-century history. She was the daughter ...
The Biography of William Wrightson, 2nd Viscount Dorchester by Julian Fellowes
Their wretched wives were both obliged to see husband and brother at war, a predicament cruelly underlined by Cumnor's calling out, on seeing his brot...
The Tale of Joshua Easement by Terry Pratchett
Sir Joshua Easement, of Easement Manor, Shrewsbury, was, in his own estimation at least, one of the last of the old Elizabethan seadogs – an ambition ...
A Letter from Catherine Hartshorn, A.D 1587, February 2nd by Joanna Trollope
He wears a very fine doublet, beloved mother, dull violet in colour, striped in a velvet ribbon with picot edge, and his ruff is well stiffened and of...
A Mathilda’s Letter by Minette Walters by Joanna Trollope
My dear Sister, ...You say I have no sympathy for your plight, but I do. Father made bad matches for both of us and I go to sleep at night wishing him...
The Life of Nicholas Colthurst by Sarah Singleton
Nicholas Colthurst: scholar, swordsman and sometime privateer; a composer and musician – a player of games. The portrait was painted in 1601 when Colt...
Rosy by Tracy Chevalier
...I have always flushed easily – from physical exertion, from wine, from high emotion. As a boy I was teased by my sisters and by schoolboys – but no...