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unusual facts about Veronica Wedgwood


They Were Defeated

The historican C V Wedgwood wrote the preface to a 1960 edition of the book, in which she reveals that the novel was written partly at the instigation of Macaulay's publisher, John Murray, who had asked for something to shed light on the background to her first novel, Abbots Verney (1906).


James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose

There are several modern works on Montrose, including two biographies by John Buchan and one by Dame Veronica Wedgwood, and Montrose: The King's Champion by Max Hastings.


see also

John Thornborough

A. L. Rowse, Bishop Thornborough: A Clerical Careerist, in Richard Ollard and Pamela Tudor-Craig (editors), For Veronica Wedgwood These Studies in Seventeenth-Century History (1986)