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Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck (August 1602 – 4 June 1645), was the sister-in-law of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, and the central figure in a notable sex scandal within the English aristocracy of the early 17th century that was known at the time as "the Lady Purbeck’s business".
6 de ago. de 2018 · In nine, relatively short, chronologically organised chapters, Frances Coke Villiers’s life is reconstructed here by Johanna Luthman, through the careful stitching together of archival material with printed primary sources and select secondary literature.
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8 de jul. de 2017 · The high society of Stuart England found Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck (1602-1645) an exasperating woman. She lived at a time when women were expected to be obedient, silent, and chaste, but Frances displayed none of these qualities.
14 de jan. de 2019 · Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck. Johanna Luthman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxii + 216 pp. $27.95. | Renaissance Quarterly | Cambridge Core.
24 de set. de 2017 · Her name was Frances Coke Villiers, the Viscountess Purbeck. On 4 June, just one day before General Thomas Fairfax received orders to lift the siege of Oxford and join other Parliamentarian troops poised to engage the king’s forces to the north, Frances died.
Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck . Johanna Luthman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxii + 216 pp. $27.95. Thisfluently written, well-researched, and thoroughly enjoyable booktells the remark-able story of Frances Coke, daughter of the lawyer Sir Edward Coke, and unfortunate
The high society of Stuart England found Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck (1602-1645) an exasperating woman. She lived at a time when women were expected to be obedient,...
