The 'Quenis awne hand': the literary agency of Mary Queen of Scots in shaping her own public image, 1567-1587

我的博士研究将研究苏格兰女王玛丽在1567-1587年的诗歌和信件中的自我描绘。然后，将这种自我塑造与同一时期英国其他人描绘的玛丽形象进行对比。这种分析将重新集中在玛丽安自己的话叙述，并揭示，第一次，她持久的公众形象是基于她自己的代理人作为一个作者，多少是向外投射到她身上。

My doctoral research will examine the self-portrayal of Mary Queen of Scots in her poetry and correspondence, 1567-1587. It will then contrast this self-fashioning against the images of Mary portrayed by others in Britain in the same period. This analysis will recentre the Marian narrative in her own words and reveal, for the first time, the extent to which her enduring public image is based on her own agency as an author, and how much was outwardly projected onto her.