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The Dartington

Bride

Rosemary Griggs

KEY SELLING POINTS
The extraordinary story of Lady Gabrielle Roberda Montgomery who came to Elizabethan England to marry
into one of Devon’s most prominent and well-connected families.
A novel which reveals startling insights into women’s lives and attitudes to marriage amongst wealthy
families in sixteenth century England.
A story concerning the first Huguenot refugees coming to England in the time of Elizabeth the First.
1571, and the beautiful, headstrong daughter of a French Count marries the son of the Vice Admiral
of the Fleet of the West in Queen Elizabeth’s chapel at Greenwich. It sounds like a marriage made
in heaven…

Roberda’s father, the Count of Montgomery, is a prominent Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion.
When her formidable mother follows him into battle, she takes all her children with her.

After a traumatic childhood in war-torn France, Roberda arrives in England full of hope for her wedding. But her
ambitious bridegroom, Gawen, has little interest in taking a wife.

Received with suspicion by the servants at her new home, Dartington Hall in Devon, Roberda works hard to
prove herself as mistress of the household and to be a good wife. But there are some who will never accept her
as a true daughter of Devon.

After the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, Gawen’s father welcomes Roberda’s family to Dartington as
refugees. Compassionate Roberda is determined to help other French women left destitute by the wars. But her
husband does not approve. Their differences will set them on an extraordinary path…

Author and speaker Rosemary Griggs has been researching Devon's sixteenth-century history for years. She
tells the stories of the forgotten women of history – the women beyond the royal court; wives, sisters,
daughters and mothers who played their part during the tumultuous Tudor years: the Daughters of Devon.

Publication Date: 28th March 2024 £11.99 ISBN: 9781805142997
Thema subject category: FV – Historical fiction
paperback 216 x 138 mm 368 pp Portrait

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