Word: marrick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tapestry unwinds slowly, and in a leisurely procession of vivid details-the nuns of Marrick Priory at the harvest, an ousted priest bitterly walking travelers' horses before a church, young squires at archery practice, a merchant cold-bloodedly bartering his wife for a neighbor's gold-the chronicler delicately picks out a background of all England in that...
...clear-edged characters appear: Christabel Cowper, the hard-minded, powermongering Prioress of Marrick; Lord Darcy, a subtle old nobleman who holds kings cheap and honor dear; July Savage, the unhappy sister of a famous whore; Robert Aske, squire and barrister, a young man who lives in a straight line, and so cannot avoid trouble when it comes...
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