by Susan J. Godwin (Author)

How did a British queen foster a court of women writers in the 1600s-an age when female authorship was rare? Follow American scholar Susan Godwin's quest to unearth Mary of Modena's real story--a journey that involves revisiting seventeenth-century British spaces and delving deep into Oxford's archives--even as Godwin charts the course of her own resilient, feminist path.