The Graces The Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration Court, Breeze Barrington

The Graces The Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration Court, Breeze BarringtonNew Paperback In 1673, fifteen year old Maria dEste travelled from Italy to marry James, the future King of England, who was twenty five years her senior. At the debauched Restoration court, Maria recreated the world shed left behind one in which women were highly educated, exercised power and celebrated art and artists with concentrated patronage. From Sarah Churchill, keen politician and favourite of Queen Anne, to revered poet Anne Finch and

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