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Wife To Mr Milton
  • Published: 30 January 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141970653
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

Wife To Mr Milton




Graves's fascinating portrait of a remarkable woman, available once again in Penguin Modern Classics

Marie Powell is sixteen when her father marries her to the poet John Milton in payment of a debt. They move to a pretty garden-house in London, but she struggles to adjust to her new life. Her husband is high-minded and unyielding, and only makes Marie long for the man she really loves. As Civil War sweeps across England and the King is killed, a battle starts to rage between husband and wife - one that only the powerful can win.

Told through the fictional journals of Milton's wife, Robert Graves's sympathetic and sensitive reconstruction of her tragic life is also a convincing, linguistically rich portrait of seventeenth-century England as it is ravaged by war.

  • Published: 30 January 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141970653
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

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Vivid, rich and forthright

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