Historical Fiction
Bess Throckmorton, lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth I, secretly marries Sir Walter Raleigh and endures years of separation, court intrigue, and his imprisonment.
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Bess Throckmorton, lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth I, secretly marries Sir Walter Raleigh and endures years of separation, court intrigue, and his imprisonment.
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Based on the lives of Walter Ralegh and Elizabeth Throckmorton, the maid of honour of Elizabeth I
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Central devoted marriage and attraction; no explicit sexual content
Violence & gore
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Tower imprisonment, political peril, threatened execution; little gore
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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No evidence found in available sources
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No evidence found in available sources
Religious content
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No evidence found in available sources
Magic & witchcraft
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Not present
Occult / demonology
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Not present
Political content
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Elizabethan court intrigue, treachery, and Jacobean political plotting
Self-harm / suicide
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Raleigh's suicide attempt amid despair and long imprisonment
Abuse & suffering
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Years of Tower imprisonment; loneliness and emotional hardship
Other
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