Mistresses is Book of the Year

Linda Porter’s Mistresses: sex and scandal at the court of Charles II has been picked by Tracy Borman as one of her ‘Books of the Year’ in BBC History Magazine describing it as ‘a set of impeccably researched pen portraits of the seven women who dominated the king’s life…an engaging and enlightening read.’

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Linda Porter

Linda Porter

Dr Linda Porter has a B.A. and a D.Phil from the University of York, where she studied under the direction of two inspirational professors, Gerald Aylmer and Gwyn A. Williams. She spent nearly ten years lecturing in New York, at Fordham and City Universities among others, before returning with h...More about Linda Porter