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The winter queen / Jane Stevenson.
Van Pelt Library PR6069.T4535 A94 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stevenson, Jane, 1959-
- Standardized Title:
- Astraea
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Frederick I, King of Bohemia, 1596-1662--Fiction.
- Elizabeth.
- Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Frederick I, King of Bohemia, 1596-1662.
- Yoruba (African people).
- Africans.
- Marriages of royalty and nobility.
- Netherlands--History--Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648--Fiction.
- Netherlands.
- History.
- Marriages of royalty and nobility--Fiction.
- Africans--Netherlands--Fiction.
- Yoruba (African people)--Fiction.
- Interracial marriage--Fiction.
- Interracial marriage.
- Freed persons--Fiction.
- Freed persons.
- Queens--Fiction.
- Queens.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 307 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
- Summary:
- Set in Holland in the 17th century, "The Winter Queen" is a sweeping portrait of the tumultuous history and politics of the era as well as an immensely moving account of a strange and magical love affair. At its center are two royal exiles: Elizabeth of Bohemia, the Winter Queen, and her clandestine lover, an African prince of shamanic gifts, sold into slavery and freed after years of bondage.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Astraea. London : Jonathan Cape, 2001.
- ISBN:
- 0618149120
- OCLC:
- 50478544
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