In an Ocean of Elizabeths
Terry Eagleton: Rochester, 23 October 2014
Blazing Star: The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
by Alexander Larman.
Head of Zeus, 387 pp., £25, July 2014,978 1 78185 109 8 Show More
by Alexander Larman.
Head of Zeus, 387 pp., £25, July 2014,
“... itself, the nobility is both attractive and alarming. In his biography of the real-life Rochester, Alexander Larman provides a workmanlike account of an improvident life. John Wilmot was born in 1647 on All Fools’ Day. His father, one of Charles II’s most stalwart lieutenants, had fought for the king and fled the field with him after the royalist ... ”
