Court Lady and Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England by Lita-Rose Betcherman

Court Lady and Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England

Lita-Rose Betcherman

400 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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Born during the reign of Elizabeth I, Lucy and Dorothy Percy came to prominence at the court of Charles I. Lucy, the Countess of Carlisle, dominated the royal scene. Her beauty was immortalized in magnificent Van Dyck portraits, her political skil...

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