Transformations of Love The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin

by Harris, Frances

• ISBN13: 9780199270323
• ISBN10: 0199270325
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

John Evelyn ranks with his friend Samuel Pepys as one of the best loved of English diarists. This is an absorbing new study of the most controversial episode of his life: his passionate "seraphic" friendship with Margaret Godolphin, a maid of honor at the Restoration court of Charles II. Set against the vivid background of the court and the great gardens of the time, Transformations of Love provides new insights into the sexual and spiritual worlds of early modern England.

Author Biography

Frances Harris is a senior curator of manuscripts, British Library, London.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. viii
Abbreviations	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Prologue	p. 11
The Garden and the River	p. 15
Man of the Shade	p. 35
Nuptial Love	p. 64
Courtly Love	p. 91
Conversion	p. 123
Seraphick Love	p. 148
The Serpent in the Garden	p. 187
The Marriage Masque	p. 214
Godly Housekeeping	p. 244
Epilogue	p. 282
Note on Sources	p. 303
W. G. Hiscock, John Evelyn, and Margaret Godolphin	p. 306
Select Bibliography	p. 310
Index	p. 325
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