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In Doublet and Hose

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First published: 1904
Pages: 171

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Francis Stafford would rather run with the hounds and shoot a crossbow than sit over her embroidery, and her tutor keeps telling her so. When her father's devotion to Mary, Queen of Scots calls for a courier nobody would suspect, Lord Stafford's daughter pulls on a page's doublet and hose and carries the secret letters herself. Lucy Foster Madison sets the story in 1586, with Sir Amyas Paulet holding his royal prisoner at Chartley, Anthony Babington pushing a rescue scheme toward something far darker, and Queen Elizabeth descending on Stafford Hall in the middle of a royal progress. A challenge, a strange duel, arrest and the Tower of London follow, and the closing chapters put Francis on an English deck facing the Spanish Armada. Penn Publishing issued it in 1904 as a story for girls.

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Lucy Foster Madison

Lucy Foster Madison (1865-1932) was an American schoolteacher who became a busy writer of historical fiction and biography for young readers, published mainly by the Penn Publishing Company of Philadelphia. Born Lucy Foster in Kirksville, Missouri, she taught school in Missouri before a newspaper story prize in 1893 turned her toward fiction.

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