by Fiona Mountain · Preface Publishing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781848091658
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«Lady of the Butterflies» is the historical novel by Fiona Mountain, published by Preface Publishing in paperback (672 pages, in English).
Eleanor Goodricke grows up in the Somerset marshes, daughter of a Puritan soldier and heiress after the English Civil War. Her passion for butterflies, incomprehensible to those around her, will make her a celebrated entomologist and discoverer of the Glanville Fritillary. Two marriages, a dangerous love, and a trial for madness mark her life.
The work was first published in 2009 and reissued in 2010 under the title «Rebel Heiress».
For readers of historical and romantic fiction, particularly those interested in the 17th century and in female figures of science.
