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Transformations of love : the friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin / Frances Harris.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harris, Frances, 1950- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
- Evelyn, John.
- Evelyn, John, 1620-1706--Relations with women.
- Godolphin, Margaret.
- Essayists--England--Biography.
- Essayists.
- England--Social life and customs--17th century.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (349 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- John Evelyn is one of the best loved English diarists. He was a virtuoso, a man of letters and of science, highly intellectual and devoutly spiritual. This is a study of his passionate 'seraphic' friendship with Margaret Godolphin, a maid of honour at the Restoration Court of Charles II.
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; Prologue; 1 The Garden and the River; 2 Man of the Shade; 3 Nuptial Love; 4 Courtly Love; 5 Conversion; 6 Seraphick Love; 7 The Serpent in the Garden; 8 The Marriage Masque; 9 Godly Housekeeping; Epilogue; Appendix A: Note on Sources; Appendix B: W. G. Hiscock, John Evelyn, and Margaret Godolphin; Select Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-324) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-03923-2
- 1-280-75926-7
- 0-19-151441-1
- 1-4294-5692-2
- OCLC:
- 476258235
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