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John Donne was a key literary figure in the seventeenth century at a time when poets were dependent on patronage for support and reward. Lucy, Countess of Bedford was John Donne's patron and muse.
Lesley Lawson is a researcher and writer specialising in Elizebethan poetry. This is her first book.
Mention -Chronicle of Higher Education, June 13, 2008
"...teems with historical facts and gossipy details, vividly
filling in the Elizabethan and Jacobean years in which she grew up
and lived." Cahiers Elisabethians, Spring 2009
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