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Stuart, Lady Arabella
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Stuart, Lady Arabella (1575–1615)

Claimant to the English throne. She was the cousin of James I and next in succession to him to both Scottish and English thrones after Elizabeth I. She was the focus of the main plot to eliminate James, and was imprisoned 1609 when James became suspicious. On her release 1610 she secretly married William Seymour, another claimant to the throne, and they were both imprisoned. She died insane in the Tower of London.



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In a quite different way, the writer's political agenda is part of Sara Jayne Steen's "'How Subject to Interpretation': Lady Arbella Stuart and the Reading of Illness," where Steen's detective work leads to her conclusion that Stuart was probably afflicted with acute intermittent porphyria, an illness that her letters document but also exploit for political and psychological reasons.
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Sara Jayne Steen's edition of The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart is based on arduous and careful editorial work.
Women and the early modern canon: recent editions of works by English ... by Crane, Mary Thomas / Renaissance Quarterly
Sara Jayne Steen's edition of The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart is based on arduous and careful editorial work.
Women Writers in English: 1350-1850 by Crane, Mary Thomas / Renaissance Quarterly
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