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Title: Margaret of Anjou
Makers of History

Author: Jacob Abbott

Release Date: May 1, 2008 [EBook #25275]

Language: English

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MAKERS OF HISTORY

MARGARET OF ANJOU

by

JACOB ABBOTT

WITH ENGRAVINGS

NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1902

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District
of New York.

[Illustration: The Bridal Procession.]

PREFACE.

The story of Margaret of Anjou forms a part of the history of England,
for the lady, though of Continental origin, was the queen of one of
the English kings, and England was the scene of her most remarkable
adventures and exploits. She lived in very stormy times, and led a
very stormy life; and her history, besides the interest which it
excites from the extraordinary personal and political vicissitudes
which it records, is also useful in throwing a great deal of light
upon the ideas of right and wrong, and of good and evil, and upon the
manners and customs, both of peace and war, which prevailed in England
during the age of chivalry.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE HOUSES OF YORK AND LANCASTER 15

II. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TIME 30

III. KING HENRY VI