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The Life of Mrs Godolphin (Paperback)
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The Life of Mrs Godolphin (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - British & Irish History, 17th & 18th Centuries
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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 of King
Charles II. To Evelyn she represented the antithesis of the
corruption he despised. Written as 'a record of her perfections'
following her death in childbirth, this hagiographic biography
reflects the extent of Evelyn's devotion. Left among his unrevised
manuscripts, it was not published until 1847, nearly two centuries
after its composition. Edited by the bishop and orator Samuel
Wilberforce (1805-73), the work includes helpful notes and
genealogical tables that elucidate the text.
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