The Tangled Skein (Annotated)

The Tangled Skein is Orczy's reworking of her early historical romance, In Mary's Reign, a novel steeped in the perilous politics of Tudor England. Set amid the anxieties of Mary I's Catholic restoration and the uncertain fate of Princess Elizabeth, it braids court conspiracy, dynastic suspicion, and private passion into a deliberately melodramatic design. Orczy's prose favors theatrical scenes, h...