Lady of the butterflies / Fiona Mountain.
The story of Eleanor Glanville, the beautiful daughter of a seventeenth-century Puritan nobleman whose unconventional passions scandalized society. When butterflies were believed to be the souls of the dead, Eleanor's scientific study of them made her little better than a witch. But her life--set against a backdrop of war, betrayal, and sexual obsession--was that of a woman far ahead of her time.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780399156366
- ISBN: 0399156364
- Physical Description: 533 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: 1st American edition
- Publisher: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2010.
- Copyright: ©2009
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "A novel"--Jacket.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-533).
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- Glanville, Eleanor, 1654-1709 > Fiction.
Women entomologists > Great Britain > Fiction. - Genre:
- Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
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The story of Eleanor Glanville, the beautiful daughter of a seventeenth-century Puritan nobleman whose unconventional passions scandalized society. When butterflies were believed to be the souls of the dead, Eleanor's scientific study of them made her little better than a witch. But her life--set against a backdrop of war, betrayal, and sexual obsession--was that of a woman far ahead of her time.
