| Description |
1 online resource (x, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-324) and index. |
| Contents |
The garden and the river -- Man of the shade -- Nuptial love -- Courtly love -- Conversion -- Seraphick love -- The serpent in the garden -- The marriage masque -- Godly housekeeping. |
| Summary |
John Evelyn ranks with his friend Samuel Pepys as one of the best loved of English diarists. He was a virtuoso: a man of letters and of science, highly intellectual and devoutly spiritual. This is an absorbing new study of the most controversial episode of his life: his passionate 'seraphic' friendship with Margaret Godolphin, a maid of honour at the Restoration court of Charles II. Was Evelyn in his way as much a sexual predator as the rakes he professed to despise, or does the. episode provide an unexpected slant on contemporary spirituality? Set against the vivid background of the court and. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
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Evelyn, John, 1620-1706. |
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Godolphin, Margaret Blagge, 1652-1678 -- Friends and associates.
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Godolphin, Margaret Blagge, 1652-1678. |
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Friends and associates. |
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Evelyn, John, 1620-1706 -- Friends and associates.
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Godolphin, Margaret Blagge, 1652-1678.
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Godolphin, Margaret. |
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Diarists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Diarists. |
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Great Britain. |
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Biographies.
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| Subject |
Women -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Women. |
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Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- Biography.
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Courts and courtiers. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Harris, Frances. Transformations of love. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 (DLC) 2002192584 |
| ISBN |
9780191514418 (electronic book) |
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0191514411 (electronic book) |
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1280759267 |
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9781280759260 |
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0199252572 (Cloth) |
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9780199252572 |
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0199270325 (paperback) |
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