![]() ![]() ![]() The sisters hang the traveler’s clothes in the communal privy, where “the ammonia of the piss kills the beasties”-the lice. But in the first chapter, the queen rids the court of an ungainly, rustic Marie by installing her in a remote English convent, home to 20 starving nuns. A matrix, which comes from the Latin for mother, builds implacably between Eleanor and Marie. Groff gives her a fraught, lifelong, sexually charged tie to Eleanor of Aquitaine. Seventeen years old, in the cold March drizzle, Marie who comes from France.” The inspiration is a historical figure, Marie de France, considered the first woman to write poetry in French. Set in early medieval Europe, this book paints a rousing portrait of an abbess seizing and holding power.Īfter the spicy, structurally innovative Fates and Furies (2015), Groff spins back 850 years to a girl on a horse: “She rides out of the forest alone. ![]()
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