The Life of Mrs Godolphin

by John Evelyn and Samuel Wilberforce

Book Overview

John Evelyn (1620-1706), a founder member of the Royal Society, was a horticulturalist and author, best remembered for his diaries. Throughout his prolific writings he exhibits a strong distaste for the corruption of life at court. The beautiful and pious Margaret Godolphin (1652-78), a courtier more than thirty years Evelyn's junior, with whom he struck up an intense friendship in 1672, was maid of honour in the household of Queen Catherine, wife...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110806194X
• ISBN13: 9781108061940
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"