Mary Of Carisbrooke - Softcover

Mary Of Carisbrooke

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Ohkwaho Books and Fine Art
(Oakville, ON, Canada)

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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This book is in very good condition. Minor wear and bend to front cover, no wear to back cover. Minor markings and signature from previous owner first inner page. No other markings inner pages. Spine intact, some creases. "Author's Note: No single character of this story is fictitious, except the girl Libby. Although Mary, the assistant to the royal laundress, is mentioned several times in King Charles the First's Letters, her surname and parentage are unknown. The service she rendered to his Majesty by smuggling his secret correspondence in and out of Carisbrooke Castle is authentic fact." Good Reads "Margaret Campbell Wood was born on 17 February 1891 in Rotherfield, Sussex, England, UK. She was the youngest of ten children, who had a happy childhood in the Sussex country side. She was eventually educated at small private schools in Paris and London. She married Peter Barnes in 1917,( a furniture salesman), and the couple had two sons, Michael and John. Michael, a Royal Armoured Corps Lieutenant, was killed during WW II. She died on 1 April 1962 in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. Her books are historical novels, called Shadows of the Crown, that follow the history of the English Crown. The majority of her books were written between the 1940's and 1950's. Her last and posthumous novel Lady on the Coin was finished by the novelist Hebe Elsna" Good Reads. Seller Inventory # 776-2023

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