The following book is a biography of Mary Powell and Deborah, who happened to be the wife and third daughter of John Milton, the author best-remembered today for his work 'Paradise Lost'. Shortly after, Milton married Mary Powell, she left him and returned to live with her mother. He wanted to divorce her to marry another, but the legal statutes of England did not allow for Milton to apply for a divorce. Although it is impossible to know why exactly Powell separated from Milton, it is possible that Powell's family, a strong royalist family, caused a political difference that was exacerbated by the English Civil War.

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