Maid of Secrets

Amber Terry
Honors World History
Mrs. White
Maid of Secrets

Main Characters

·         Meg

·         Golden Rose Troupe

·         Queen Elizabeth

·          Cecil

·         Sophia

·         Anna

·         Beatrice

·         Jane

This book is about a young girl named who was captured by the Queen and was required to serve her in order for the traveling play she was from to continue their works.

Summary

Meg is a young girl who travels and takes part in a traveling play. They go to different towns and villi ages and perform different plays. Well during these plays, Meg picks around the crowd stealing objects of value and interest. “So I’d stolen his purse” (2). Meg gets taken off to the castle where she meets the rest of the other maids that work for the Queen. She later than meets the Queen to receive her first task. She is to spy on the Spanish and listen to what they speak of and report it back to the Queen and her court. She is to do all of this during a ball that the Queen is hosting. During this she is instructed to steal some letters from Rafe. Well she steals the letters and she can’t seem to get them back to Rafe. She was to give them to the spy for him to read but he took longer than he was supposed to, to read them. She does get the letters back but she ends up kissing de feria and getting feelings for him. “Instead, as stealthily as a cat, I drew my left hand down his doublet, found the slash pocket in his trunks, and slipped the papers inside” (126).

History

This book does in fact have Queen Elizabeth as a character in the book. In the book it says over and over that she is not going to marry because she does not like to share her power. It also says in the book that she likes to dance and do things with lots of different guys. Both of these things are true facts about Queen Elizabeth.

Quotes

She was a theft when she was in the traveling play. This is how she helped them make money since she was forbidden to act with the play because she was a female. “So I’d stolen his purse” (2).

While she was kissing Rafe to distract him to get the letters back: “Instead, as stealthily as a cat, I drew my left hand down his doublet, found the slash pocket in his trunks, and slipped the papers inside” (126).

About the Author

            The author of this book is Jennifer McGowan. She is from a small northern town in Ohio.

She has been writing fiction for as long as she can remember, and when she was in Jr, High she was the editor and chief for the school paper.