Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin

by Frances Harris

Book Overview

John Evelyn ranks with his friend Samuel Pepys as one of the best loved of English diarists. This is an absorbing new study of the most controversial episode of his life: his passionate "seraphic" friendship with Margaret Godolphin, a maid of honor at the Restoration court of Charles II. Set against the vivid background of the court and the great gardens of the time, Transformations of Love provides new insights into the sexual and spiritual worlds...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199252572
• ISBN13: 9780199252572
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.7"