Historical person
Nell Gwyn
1650–1687
Nell Gwyn was an English actress and mistress of Charles II. Her career from the Restoration stage to the royal court made her one of the best-known women of the period and linked theatre, celebrity and patronage.
Antonia Fraser’s King Charles II places Nell Gwyn within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, political ambition and government, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life.
In non-fiction, Nell Gwyn is discussed in Linda Porter’s Mistresses. In Linda Porter’s Mistresses, Lucy Walter, Barbara Villiers, Frances Teresa Stuart, Nell Gwyn, Louise de Kérouaille, Moll Davis and Hortense Mancini entered royal life from very different social and national backgrounds.
Standalone books
Standalone books featuring Nell Gwyn (1 book)
Non Fiction
Non Fiction featuring Nell Gwyn (1 book)
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
