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Auteur(s) : Pickford, Nigel
Titre(s) : Lady Bette and the murder of Mr Thynn [Texte imprimé] / N. A. Pickford
Publication : London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014
Description matérielle : 308 pages : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : "Lady Bette, the 14-year-old heiress to the vast Northumberland estates, becomes the
victim of a plot by her grandmother, the Countess Howard, to marry her to the dissoloute
fortune-hunter Thomas Thynn, a man three times her age with an evil reputation. Revolted
by her new husband, Lady Bette flees to Holland. Within weeks, Thynn is gunned down
in the street by three hired assassins. Who is behind the contract killing? Is it
the Swedish Count Coningsmark, young and glamorous with blond hair down to his waist?
Or is it a political assassination as the anti-Catholic press maintains? Thynn was,
after all, a key player in the Protestant faction to exclude the Catholic James, Duke
of York, as his brother Charles II's successor. N.A. Pickford creates a world of tension
and insecurity, of constant plotting and counter-plotting and of rabid anti-Catholicism,
where massive street demonstrations and public Papal burnings are weekly events. The
action moves from the great landed estates of Syon and Petworth to the cheap taverns
and brothels of London, and finally to Newgate and the gallows - the sporting spectacle
of the day. In the process, the book gives us a vivid and deeply researched portrait
of Restoration society."--Publisher's description
Sujet(s) : Percy, Elizabeth (1667-1722)
Thynne, Thomas (1648?-1682 ) -- Assassinat
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0297870858. - ISBN 9780297870852 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44280120x
Notice n° :
FRBNF44280120
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