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Title: Mistresses: Sex & Scandals
Author: PORTER LINDA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 29/06/2021
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active
According to the great diarist, John Evelyn, Charles II was
‘addicted to women’, and a great many succumbed to his
charms. Mistresses is the story of these women, each of
whom wielded influence on both the politics and cultural life
of the country. From the young king-in-exile’s first mistress,
Lucy Walter, to the promiscuous, Barbara Villiers. From
Frances Teresa Stuart, to history’s most famous orange-seller, Nell Gwynn and actress, Moll Davis. From Louise de Kéroualle, the French aristocrat to the sexually ambiguous Hortense Mancini to forlorn and humiliated Queen Catherine, the Portuguese princess who was Charles’s childless queen. Drawing on a wide variety of original sources, Linda Porter paints a vivid picture of these women and of Restoration England, an era that was both
glamorous and sordid.
ISBN: 9781509877072
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 304