Henrietta Maria

Haynes, HenriettaProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 2.8
Word count
672K words
Chapters
68

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English Originals Women's Biography Historical ReappraisalPortrait GalleryPolitical CareerFate and FortuneLove EntanglementsPower GamePatriotismVictorian EraFemale Perspective

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Henrietta Maria by Henrietta HaynesAuthor: Haynes, Henrietta,Language: English, Class: DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe, Release Date: Dec 13, 2011

Editor's review

This is a biography of the English historical figure Henrietta Maria, a public-domain history title in Project Gutenberg's free ebook collection, classified under British history. For readers seeking to understand the seventeenth-century English court and its political backdrop, this original English biography offers a narrative entry point; its value lies not in revisionist research but in presenting the subject's life and the contours of the era in a relatively complete manner. As a digitized public-domain book, it is easy to search, copy, and read offline, making it suitable as supplementary material for thematic reading in British history, and for readers who need English historical sources for coursework or reading notes. Note that the book is in the original English and was written quite early, so its prose and historical perspective bear the marks of its own time; readers should compare it with more recent scholarship.

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About the author

Haynes, Henrietta Author

Henrietta Haynes is an author about whom very little public information is currently available; her nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background are not clearly recorded. Only one work by her is held in the collection, namely Henrietta Maria. Judging by the title, this work is likely to center on the historical figure of the same name, or to be connected with figures of the seventeenth-century English royal family. Because verifiable material is so scarce, it is difficult to give a full assessment of her writing style or her overall body of work, and it cannot be confirmed whether she has published anything else. On the basis of the available information, she appears to be a writer who approaches a specific historical subject or biographical figure, with a limited number of works, and readers and researchers will need further disclosures before they can understand her more fully.