The Chaplet of Pearls; or, The White and Black Ribaumont
by Charlotte M. Yonge
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It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. 'Old Mortality' and 'Woodstock' are not controversial tales, and the 'Chaplet of Pearls' is so quite as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the sixteenth century may show more have affected them, and is, in fact, like all historical romance, the shaping of the conceptions that the imagination must necessarily form when dwelling upon the records of history. That faculty which might be called the passive fancy, and might almost be described in Portia's song, - It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. 'Old Mortality' and 'Woodstock' are not controversial tales, and the 'Chaplet of Pearls' is so quite as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the sixteenth century may have affected them, and is, in fact, like all historical romance, the shaping of the conceptions that the imagination must necessarily form when dwelling upon the records of history. That faculty which might be called the passive fancy, and might almost be described in Portia's song, - show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- The Chaplet of Pearls; or, The White and Black Ribaumont
- Original publication date
- 1868
- People/Characters
- Henri IV, King of France; Marguerite de Valois (1553-1615); Charles IX, King of France; Catherine de Medici; Sir Francis Walsingham
- Important places
- France
- Important events
- St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572)
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- English
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