The memory of no English sovereign has been so execrated as that of Mary Tudor. For generations after her death her name, with its horrid epithet clinging round it like the shirt of Nessus, was a bugbear in thousands of Protestant homes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Arthur Mee, Kuno Francke, Thomas Carlyle, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Bayard Taylor, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, James Anthony Froude, Anna Swanwick, Sir Theodore Martin, R. Dillon Boylan, John Oxenford, L. Dora Schmitz, A. J. W. Morrison, Louis H. Gray, Thomas Bailey Saunders, Charles Lock Eastlake, Edgar A. Bowring, Julia Franklin, Nathan Dole & Walter Sir Scott