Wife To Mr. MiltonAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 8 August 2024
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At the age of sixteen, Mary Powell marries poet John Milton. Their marriage, which plays out during the Civil War, is not one of love, but rather a practical arrangement that proves to be a devastating mismatch of temperaments and convictions. Her Royalist sympathies and his ardent parliamentarianism, her independence, and his austere way of life, 1640s England is a hotbed of clashing ideologies and so too is this marriage. The story, which unfolds in Maries sensitive and searching journals, is a scathing portrait of one of Englands most famous poets, a story of literary ambition and masculine egoism, and, like all of Graves historical novels, a monumental achievement of closely watched history. One the one hand, this is a tender story of the romance Marie Powell found outside the walls of her tyrannical husbands house. On the other it is also a brilliant account of one of the most breathtaking epochs in English history, when that kingdom was ravaged by a bloody civil war and the
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