My Lady Castlemaine
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Excerpt from My Lady Castlemaine: Being a Life of Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine, Afterwards Duchess of Cleveland It may perhaps be maintained that, if Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine and Duchess of Cleveland, has not been written about in many books, it is for a good and sufficient reason, that she is not worth writing about. That is not an argument to be lightly decided. But certainly less interesting women have been the subjects of numerous books, worse women, less influential - and less beautiful than this lady of the dark auburn hair and deep blue eyes. We know that Mr. G. K. Chesterton says that Charles II attracts him morally. (His words are "attracts us," but this must be the semi-editorial "we.") If King Charles can attract morally Mr. Chesterton, may not his favourite attract others? Or let us be repelled, and as we view the lady acting her part at Whitehall let us exclaim, "How different from the Court of. . . good King William III," if we like. Undoubtedly the career of Barbara Villiers furnishes a picture of one side at least of life in the Caroline period; of the life of pleasure unrestrained, unfaltering - unless through lack of cash - and unrepentant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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