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Eric Linklater

Also known as: Linklater, Eric, 1899-1974., Eric LINKLATER

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Eric Robert Russell Linklater CBE (8 March 1899 – 7 November 1974) was a Welsh-born Scottish poet, fiction writer, military historian, and travel writer. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a British subject.

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The winter of 1542 was marked by tempestuous weather throughout the British Isles: in the north, on the borders of Scotland and England, there were heavy snow-falls in December and frost so savage that by January the ships were frozen into harbour at Newcastle.

— from Mary, queen of Scots, 1882

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The goose girl and other stories

1991

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Mary, queen of Scots

1882

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From the rhyme sung by our children to the bloodline of English royalty, no one can deny Mary, Queen of Scots has unbeknown to us permanently taken root in the English people. Born in the aftermath of Henry VIII's "Great Matter" to a king who would have preferred a son, never knowing his daughter would be the matriarch of a powerful dynasty. In 14 December 1542 with only 6 days of age she was the anointed queen of Scotland, for a year the 17 year old was also the queen of France. She lived with regal dignity, chivalry and pride. However, she was unable to prevent her downfall due to the fact that she upheld medieval values in an increasingly Machiavellian world, but above all, that unlike Elizabeth I who was first a monarch, Mary Stuart nee Bruce was first a woman

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The voyage of the Challenger

1972

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