17th century Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/17th-century/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 09 Feb 2023 23:55:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg 17th century Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/17th-century/ 32 32 38398750 Exit the Actress: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/02/exit-the-actress-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/02/exit-the-actress-a-novel/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2023 08:41:52 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17291 I’m sticking with historical fiction this week. Monday was mythological history with Stone Blind but now I’ve got a real bit of history set in 17th century England.  Exit the Actress is by Priya Parmar and is the story of Ellen Gwynn, a poor commoner in 1600s London who goes on to become one of the world’s first celebrities and […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/08/miniaturist/feed/ 16 3178 The Shadow Queen https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/04/shadow-queen/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/04/shadow-queen/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:04:20 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=2732   Louis XIV may have been a fascinating king but thankfully for readers, author Sandra Gulland prefers to focus on the woman behind the man. In The Shadow Queen, that woman is Athénaїs de Montespan, an aristocratic beauty who is able to pull the King’s interest away from his longtime mistress and claim him for […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/11/the-oracle-glass/feed/ 1 1017 The Ruins of Lace https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/11/the-ruins-of-lace/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/11/the-ruins-of-lace/#respond Fri, 09 Nov 2012 08:52:27 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=905 Sometimes the past has the power to devour the future. Sometimes, as the days grow shorter and more dreary, the only anecdote is a book that takes you far away and holds you there until the very last page. Ruins of Lace is just such a book. In the 1600s King Louis XIII banned the wearing […]

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