Ebook {Epub PDF} Lady of the Butterflies by Fiona Mountain

'Lady of the Butterflies' (also published as Rebel Heiress) is based on the true story of Lady Eleanor Glanville, the pioneering butterfly collector. The Glanville Fritillary is named after her, but she is best remembered for the fact that her relations overturned her will on the grounds that no sane person would 'go in pursuit of butterflies'.Reviews:  · FIONA MOUNTAIN was a press officer at BBC Radio 1 for ten years. She is the author of three previous novels, but only returned to writing after the birth of her four children. She lives in the Cotswolds with them and her husband, a musician. She is already working on her next novel, based on the life of Charles I's queen, Henrietta Maria/5(53). The Lady. Fiona Mountain has written a powerful and sexually charged novel set in the shadow of the English Civil War. Lady of the Butterflies is a fascinating historical novel capturing the life of Eleanor Glanville, a woman of terrific scientific discipline and worldly passion.

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Preview — Lady of the Butterflies by Fiona Mountain. Fiona Mountain and 1 other person liked Shannon's review of Lady of the Butterflies: ""Lady of the Butterflies" is the story of a woman, Eleanor Glanville, whose love for butterflies an all things beautiful ultimately causes trouble for her. Author Fiona Mountain visits the Isle of Wight to talk about her book Lady of the Butterflies. A lady lepidopterist may seem an unlikely real-life subject for historical romance, but Mountain (Bloodline) makes it work in this first-person account of the life of Eleanor Glanville, the late 17th-century naturalist accused of madness because of her devotion to studying butterflies. Daughter of a landowner, Eleanor grows up not just admiring the natural beauty of the marshy moors around her but also observing and collecting specimens according to the latest scientific methods.