Shadow of Night
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Shadow of Night is a 2012 historical-fantasy novel by American scholar Deborah Harkness, the second book in the All Souls trilogy. As the sequel to the 2011 bestseller, A Discovery of Witches, it foll
Cover of Shadow of Night
John Dee
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John Dee was an English mathematician, astronomer, teacher, astrologer, occultist, and alchemist. He was the court astronomer for, and advisor to, Elizabeth I, and spent much of his time on alchemy, d
Shadow of Night
…gave her the inspiration for the 16th century setting of Shadow of Night. Much of the research for Shadow of Night came from Harkness' dissertation on John Dee. Book Two of the All Souls Trilogy plunges Diana and Matthew into Elizabethan London, a world of spies and subterfuge, and a group of Matthew's old…
Portrait of Dee, c. 1594
The "Seal of God", British Museum
Edward Kelley
John Dee memorial plaque installed in 2013 inside the church of St Mary the Virgin, Mortlake