Frances Harris.

Frances Harris. Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin. strange York: Oxford University Press. 2002 Pp x 330 $3500 ISBN 0-19-925257-2

Frances Harris favorably revises our understanding of the relationship, bearinged largely at court, between the young court beauty Margaret Blagge and John Evelyn the thinker and civil servant, who was married and thirty years her senior. Their friendship began in 1669 and ripened until her death six years later. In the 1950 W G Hiscock argued that Evelyn in his part as her spiritual adviser,

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