![]() ![]() Such an inherent bias is understandable, and indeed, forgivable, for by definition the direct voices and experiences of the illiterate – who were generally of the poor or middling sort – are lost to us forever, and this was a century in which literacy was not the norm for men, let alone for women. ![]() This book’s strength is simultaneously its weakness, insofar as there is much detailed material relating to the lives of seventeenth-century women who happened to be both literate and members of the governing classes, but not so much about women who occupied other stations in society. Antonia Fraser is an engaging writer of popular history, and in this volume she turns to a century about which she knows much, having also written biographies of Oliver Cromwell and Charles II, as well as a history of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. ![]()
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