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...the young court beauty Margaret Blagge and John Evelyn, the thinker and civil servant, who was married and thirty years her senior. Their friendship began 1669 and ripened until her death six years later. In the 1950s, W. G. Hiscock argued that Evelyn, in his role as her spiritual adviser, used his power over her to seduce her and keep her from marrying. In this view Evelyn is exposed as a religious hypocrite and Blagge a pious neurotic. But Harris combs the Evelyn Papers at the British Library, where she is a curator of manuscripts, to paint a fuller, very different...
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