![]() ![]() Leanda de Lisle, Books of the Year 2018, BBC History Magazine A history book that will surely inspire future fiction. Simon Heffer, Books of the Year 2018: History, The Daily Telegraph Revelatory. What distinguishes her book from most other academic monographs, however, is her very personal approach, which more traditional scholars might frown upon.Most of all, however, the book is proof that there is no excuse any more for excluding women from the narratives of mid-seventeenth-century politicalĪctivism either on the royalist or parliamentarian side. ![]() Gaby Mahlberg, Journal of Modern History Akkerman has a knack for telling a good story, and her vignettes of strong, independent, and clever women paint a lively picture of seventeenth-century female spies. ![]()
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