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“This book is set around 1630, the time of Vermeer. At the centre of this book is a young woman called Sophia who has been married off to a much older merchant called Cornelis. She’s quite glad about that because she comes from a poor family and she will live in comfort. Cornelis commissions a marriage portrait from a painter called Jan, and when Jan comes to paint this portrait he and Sophia begin to have a relationship. So the novel is about greed and lust, and how Sophia becomes entirely immoral in how she schemes to get out of her marriage and start a life with Jan.” Read more...
Historical Novels About Women Written Out of History
Alice Jolly, Novelist
