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2. • • The Marriage Portrait is Maggie O' Farrell's fictional interpretation of Lucrezia de Cosimo de Medici, who fights to survive her forced marriage with her abhorrent husband, Duke Alfonso II.
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   • “The Marriage Portrait” tells the somewhat true story of Lucrezia di Cosimo de’Medici, who at 15 was forced by her parents to marry the older Alfonso II d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, thus merging two dynasties. Alfonso spirits her away to a different palace, where she suffers. She is subject to totalitarian surveillance.

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   • This raw and real novel embodies the helplessness that many loved ones feel when trying to help someone with bipolar disorder. The Marriage Plot is loosely based off the life of the author David Foster Wallace, most known for his book, Infinite Jest. Foster Wallace was believed to have bipolar disorder.

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   • The Marriage Portrait rails against the dynastic system that produced a child bride. The novel is extraordinarily successful in this regard. O'Farrell has written an effective feminist account of the trauma of political marriages for inexperienced girls who have no notion of love and know only obedience and duty.

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   • The Marriage Portrait reflects the way popular culture tends to romanticise women from this period. Such reimagining can make it difficult for historians to communicate the complexities of past lives to modern audiences.

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   Why did Jane Austen say a woman can not marry a man?

   • In Emma, Jane Austen wrote that “a woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter”. We don’t think of the early 1800s as being a period of freedom for women but it’s positively libertine compared with the 1560s, where Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel is set.

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   Oct 17, 2022 · What emerges from O'Farrell’s novel is a literary portrait of an isolated and inexperienced young woman, who knows little beyond the palace walls. O’Farrell depicts the pressures faced by...

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   Aug 30, 2022 · I never knew the poem was based on the true story of Alfonso II, Duke of Ferarra, and his young bride Lucrezia de' Medici. Here, Maggie O'Farrell weaves a beautifully-written and compelling version of these historical events.

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   Sep 30, 2022 · I’ve always loved the poem, and I only really recently investigated whether or not it was based on real people. I discovered that Lucrezia was indeed real, and as soon as I saw her portrait, I...

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   Sep 5, 2022 · “The Marriage Portrait” tells the somewhat true story of Lucrezia di Cosimo de’Medici, who at 15 was forced by her parents to marry the older Alfonso II d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, thus ...

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    Sep 5, 2022 · The Marriage Portrait. Author: Maggie O’Farrell. ISBN-13: 978-1472223845. Publisher: Tinder Press. Guideline Price: £20. In Emma, Jane Austen wrote that “a woman is not to marry a man merely...

11. melreviewsherbooks.com › 2022/09/02 › book-reviewBook Review: ‘The Marriage Portrait’ by Maggie O’Farrell

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    ‘The Marriage Portrait’ by Maggie O’Farrell is well paced novel curated to intrigue and explore the devastatingly controlled life of Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara. By the age of 15 she was married to a Duke for the purposes of political and land gain. By 16 she was dead.