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"Fiona Mountain is a major new talent in the field of historical fiction." -Alison Weir, author of The Lady Elizabeth They say I'm mad and perhaps it's true. It is well known that lust brings madness and desperation and ruin. But upon my oath, I never meant any harm. All I wanted was to be happy, to love and to be loved in return, and for my life to count for something. That is not madness, is it?So begins the story of Eleanor Glanville, the beautiful daughter of a seventeenth-century Puritan nobleman whose unconventional passions scandalized society. When butterflies were believed to be the souls of the dead, Eleanor's scientific study of them made her little better than a witch. But her life-set against a backdrop of war, betrayal, and sexual obsession-was that of a woman far ahead of her time.
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"Fiona Mountain is a major new talent in the field of historical fiction."
-Alison Weir, author of The Lady Elizabeth
They say I'm mad and perhaps it's true.
It is well known that lust brings madness and desperation and ruin. But upon my oath, I never meant any harm. All I wanted was to be happy, to love and to be loved in return, and for my life to count for something.
That is not madness, is it?
So begins the story of Eleanor Glanville, the beautiful daughter of a seventeenth-century Puritan nobleman whose unconventional passions scandalized society. When butterflies were believed to be the souls of the dead, Eleanor's scientific study of them made her little better than a witch. But her life-set against a backdrop of war, betrayal, and sexual obsession-was that of a woman far ahead of her time.
-Alison Weir, author of The Lady Elizabeth
They say I'm mad and perhaps it's true.
It is well known that lust brings madness and desperation and ruin. But upon my oath, I never meant any harm. All I wanted was to be happy, to love and to be loved in return, and for my life to count for something.
That is not madness, is it?
So begins the story of Eleanor Glanville, the beautiful daughter of a seventeenth-century Puritan nobleman whose unconventional passions scandalized society. When butterflies were believed to be the souls of the dead, Eleanor's scientific study of them made her little better than a witch. But her life-set against a backdrop of war, betrayal, and sexual obsession-was that of a woman far ahead of her time.
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- Title Lady of the Butterflies
- Author Fiona Mountain
- Binding Hardback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 553
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Putnam Adult, New York
- Publication date 2010-07-15
- ISBN 9780399156366 / 0399156364
- Weight 1.81 lbs (0.82 kg)
- Dimensions 9.5 x 6.38 x 1.69 in (24.13 x 16.21 x 4.29 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Category Fiction - Historical
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Biographical fiction
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010002283
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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