{"product_id":"with-my-own-hand","title":"WITH MY OWN HAND","description":"\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e.csD23A9CB{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#1A1A1A;font-style:normal;Arial;} .cs95B300B{11pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Calibri;} .cs2B8514B{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#1A1A1A;font-style:italic;Arial;} .cs3388614{text-align:left;margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0pt} .cs97DFFCB{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Times New Roman;}\u003c\/style\u003e\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003cp class=\"cs3388614\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csD23A9CB\"\u003eThe youngest of the Maitland siblings, Marie had watched her elder sisters be married off one by one, destined to take up the unavoidable path for women in sixteenth-century Scotland. However, as she neared marrying age, her father, an influential judge, poet and Keeper of the Privy Seal under Mary, Queen of Scots, went blind and suddenly needed someone to act as his scribe and secretary. In taking up this role, Marie indeed avoided the unavoidable, dedicating her life to her father's work. After his death, she put the finishing touches on the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs2B8514B\"\u003eMaitland Quarto\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csD23A9CB\"\u003e, long recognised as significant for its preservation of the poetry of the male great-and-good of sixteenth-century Scotland.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs97DFFCB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books N Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50533476237552,"sku":"9781035449163","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1855\/5830\/files\/9781035449163_1.jpg?v=1790313737","url":"https:\/\/booksngifts.com.au\/products\/with-my-own-hand","provider":"Books N Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}