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When Knighthood Was in Flower

When Knighthood Was in Flower

by Charles Major

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Author
Major, Charles, 1856-1913
Title
When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth
Credits
E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Jeannie Howse, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net)
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
Mary, Queen, consort of Louis XII, King of France, 1496-1533 -- Fiction
Category
Text
eBook-No.
17498
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17498
Release Date
January 13, 2006
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER — or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth — REWRITTEN AND RENDERED INTO MODERN ENGLISH FROM SIR EDWIN CASKODEN'S MEMOIR — By Edwin Caskoden [Charles Major]
  2. 2.JULIA MARLOWE EDITION — WITH SCENES FROM THE PLAY — COPYRIGHT, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED NINETY EIGHT, AND NINETEEN HUNDRED ONE BY THE BOWEN-MERRILL COMPANY — To My Wife — CONTENTS — The Play
  3. 3.When Knighthood Was in Flower — When Knighthood Was in Flower.... — The Caskodens — CHAPTER I ToC — The Duel — CHAPTER II ToC — How Brandon Came to Court — [Here the editor sees fit to substitute a description of this tournament taken from the quaint old chronicler, Hall.] — CHAPTER III ToC — The Princess Mary — CHAPTER IV ToC — A Lesson in Dancing — CHAPTER V ToC — An Honor and an Enemy — CHAPTER VI ToC — A Rare Ride to Windsor — CHAPTER VII ToC — Love's Fierce Sweetness — CHAPTER VIII ToC — The Trouble in Billingsgate Ward — CHAPTER IX ToC — Put not your Trust in Princesses — CHAPTER X ToC — Justice, O King! — CHAPTER XI ToC — Louis XII a Suitor — CHAPTER XII ToC — Atonement — CHAPTER XIII ToC — A Girl's Consent — CHAPTER XIV ToC — In the Siren Country — CHAPTER XV ToC — To Make a Man of Her — CHAPTER XVI ToC — A Hawking Party — CHAPTER XVII ToC — The Elopement — CHAPTER XVIII ToC — To the Tower — CHAPTER XIX ToC — Proserpina — CHAPTER XX ToC — Down into France — [Again the editor takes the liberty of substituting Hall's quaint account of Mary's journey to France.] — [Again a quotation from Hall is substituted]: — CHAPTER XXI ToC — Letters from a Queen — Note by the Editor — The Author and The Book — By Maurice Thompson

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