| Description |
1 online resource (x, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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OUP E-Books
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-324) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Evelyn, John, 1620-1706
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Godolphin, Margaret Blagge, 1652-1678 -- 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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| SUBJECT |
Evelyn, John, 1620-1706. fast (OCoLC)fst00002615 |
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Godolphin, Margaret Blagge, 1652-1678. fast (OCoLC)fst00485966 |
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Diarists -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Women -- Great Britain -- Biography
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Courts and courtiers.
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Diarists.
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Friendship.
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Manners and customs.
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Women.
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Liefdesparen.
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Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 17th century
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England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043322
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Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- Biography
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| Subject |
England.
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Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191514418 |
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0191514411 |
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1280759267 |
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9781280759260 |
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9780199270323 |
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0199270325 |
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