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Queen Elizabeth's daughter : a novel of Elizabeth I / Anne Clinard Barnhill.

by Barnhill, Anne Clinard.

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St. Martin's Griffin, c2014.

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 -- Fiction.

Queens -- Great Britain -- Fiction.

Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Fiction.

Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- Fiction.

1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.

371 p. ; 22 cm.

"Mistress Mary Shelton is Queen Elizabeth's favorite ward, enjoying every privilege the position affords. The queen loves Mary like a daughter, and, like any good mother, she wants her to make a powerful match. The most likely prospect: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. But while Oxford seems to be everything the queen admires: clever, polished and wealthy, Mary knows him to be lecherous, cruel, and full of treachery. No matter how hard the queen tries to push her into his arms, Mary refuses. Instead, Mary falls in love with a man who is completely unsuitable. Sir John Skydemore is a minor knight with little money, a widower with five children. Worst of all, he's a Catholic at a time when Catholic plots against Elizabeth are rampant. The queen forbids Mary to wed the man she loves. When the young woman, who is the queen's own flesh and blood, defies her, the couple finds their very lives in danger as Elizabeth's wrath knows no bounds..."--Publisher.

Biographical fiction.

Historical fiction.

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