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“... but because of the nature of late Elizabethan culture, above all in the metropolis, which Lake and Questier explore in the first few hundred pages of the book. Let us simplify matters by explaining that it cannot have been the case that in that society some people (Puritans, or ‘the godly’) ‘gadded’ to sermons (in contemporary parlance) while others ...”

“... In her​ early 15th-century conduct book for women, Christine de Pizan advised a princess, not yet married, to ‘love her husband and live in peace with him, or otherwise she will have already discovered the torments of hell.’ Tough advice for the 23-year-old Portuguese Infanta, Catherine of Braganza. Soon after her arrival at the Restoration court in 1662, as the wife of Charles II, she was confronted with Charles’s mistress of the moment: the dazzling Barbara Palmer, countess of Castlemaine ...”