# Wife to Mr Milton

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- Book: [Wife to Mr Milton](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-graves/wife-to-mr-milton) ([Wife to Mr Milton.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-graves/wife-to-mr-milton.md))
- Authors: [Robert Graves](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-graves)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-750-0
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2011-12-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Marie Powell is sixteen when her father marries her to the poet John Milton in payment of a debt. They move to a pretty garden-house in London, but she struggles to adjust to her new life. Her husband is high-minded and unyielding, and only makes Marie long for the man she really loves. As Civil War sweeps across England and the King is killed, a battle starts to rage between husband and wife - one that only the powerful can win. Told through the fictional journals of Milton's wife, Robert Graves's sympathetic and sensitive reconstruction of her tragic life is also a convincing, linguistically rich portrait of seventeenth-century England as it is ravaged by war.