Margaret of Anjou (Classic Reprint) Book

MARGARET OF ANJOU. Chapter I. The Houses of York and Lancas. ter. A real beralce. IVo great quarrels. MAEGAEET OF ANJOU was a heroine; not a heroine of romance and fiction, but of stem and terrible reality. Her life was a series of military exploits, attended with dangers, privations, sufferings, and wonderful vicissitudes of fortune, scarcely to be paralleled in the whole history of mankind. She was born and lived in a period during which there prevailed in the western part of Europe two great and dreadful quarrels, which lasted for more than a hundred years, and which kept France and England, and all the countries contiguous to them, in a state of continual commotion during all that time. The first of these quarrels grew out of a dispute which arose among the various branches of the royal family of England in respect to theTable of Contents CONTENTS; I THB HOUSES OF YORK AND LANCASTER----- 15; (I MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ThlK 30; III KING HENRY VI 46; IV MAKGABET'S FATHER AND MOTHER 09; V ROYAL COURTSHIP---- 75; VI, THE "WEDDING 93; *JK RECEPTION IN ENGLAND 115; Vill THE STORY OF LADY NEVILLE 125; IX PL0TT1NGS 143; X THE FALL OF GLOUCESTER 157; XI THE FALL OF SUFFOLKIT1; XII BIRTH OF A PRINCE___188; rill ILLNESS OF THE KING_______---, 199; XIV ANXIETY AND TROUBLE207; XV MARGARET A FUGITIVE222; XVI MARGARET TRIUMPHANT231; XVII MARGARET AN EXILE237; Xrill A ROYAL COUSIN 211; XIX RETURN TO ENGLAND254; XX YEARS OF EXILE-209; XXI THE RECONCILIATION WITH WARWICK278; XXII BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT285; XXIII CHILDLESS, AND A WIDOW------292; XXIV CONCLUSION 306*About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writRead More