- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Trade; New edition edition (July 5 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0006551556
- ISBN-13: 978-0006551553
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.2 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
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'Katharine McMahon writes in a mellifluous, often poetic style and headily evokes the Jacobean age - to such a degree that I felt absorbed into Isabel's world and the places where she lived.' Alison Weir, author of The Six Wives of Henry VIII 'This is a story of passion, power - and dashed hopes. A tale to conjure with, down to its last final twist.' Lavinia Byrne, author and broadcaster
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This is the story of Isabel Stanhope, the daughter of a seventeenth-century English Catholic family, who becomes involved with the dangerous political and religious factions of the day. An English heroine. - Katharine McMahon writes about the real lives of women from the past. - Strong narrative, vividly-drawn characters and a historical setting. Entertaining and romantic. A more intelligent novel than Moggach's Tulip Fever but just as entertaining. - Based in part on the true story of Mary Ward, one of the seventeenth century's most adventurous, infuriating and inspirational women. A lost feminist icon, a pioneer educationalist and an energetic advocate of the rights of women in a world where even well-bred women were expected to remain silent and subservient.
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After Mary, Aug 16 2010
By ashroc - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: After Mary (Paperback)
Set in seventeenth-century England and Europe. There are not that many choices for women, marriage or entering a convent were top of a very short list. Isabella Stanhope wants a 'different' kind of life.Isabella, a young upper class catholic woman, betrothed to a second cousin, with a future which seems set. Circumstances change as she becomes involved in dangerou religious activities and political ingrigue.
After the failure of the gunpowder plot, Isabella follows Mary Ward into a new religious order, and experiences an ongoing battle with the Catholic Church towards new forms of religious life for women. That being, an order that is not enclosed and follows the Jesuit principles.
Rich in historical details, a strong narrative, and fully formed characters this novel is hard to put down.
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