The Graces: The Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration Court by Breeze Barrington #literature who also talks

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author of The Whalebone Theatre

Hardback | Extent: 192 pages

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The Graces: The Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration Court by Breeze Barrington #literature who also talksA spellbinding work of history that uncovers the inner lives and work of Maria of Modena and her graces, the extraordinary women who practiced art, poetry and politics within the misogyny of the Restoration court. In 1673, fifteen year old Maria dEste travelled from Italy to marry James, the future King of England, who was twenty five years her senior. At the debauched Restoration court, Maria recreated the world shed left behind one in which women