68 pages • 2 hours read
Deborah HarknessA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Content Warning: This section of the guide describes and analyzes the source text’s depiction of historical sexism, the marriage of an underage girl to an adult man, miscarriage, death by suicide, recreational drug use, and rape.
Matthew and Diana timewalk to Matthew’s Oxfordshire “Old Lodge” in 1590, where he’s known as Matthew Roydon. They’re met by playwright Christopher “Kit” Marlowe. Kit is also a daemon, and he is prejudiced against witches and suspects Diana.
Matthew’s servant Françoise dresses Diana in period-appropriate clothes, and Matthew warns Diana to be on guard before they meet his associates. Downstairs they meet another writer, George Chapman, a human, or “warmblood,” who is more welcoming than Kit.
The next morning, Kit and another daemon, Thomas Harriot, discuss Diana’s unknown accent. She realizes his friends are an infamous, mysterious group of scientists and scholars called the School of Night. Diana realizes that fitting into Elizabethan England won’t be as easy as she thought. Françoise and another servant, Pierre, see the large de Clermont brand she got for breaking the covenant, realizing she’s a timewalker.
By Deborah Harkness
Birth & Rebirth
View Collection
Books that Feature the Theme of...
View Collection
Community
View Collection
Fathers
View Collection
Forgiveness
View Collection
Grief
View Collection
Guilt
View Collection
Loyalty & Betrayal
View Collection
Mortality & Death
View Collection
New York Times Best Sellers
View Collection
Religion & Spirituality
View Collection
Revenge
View Collection
Romance
View Collection
The Past
View Collection
Valentine's Day Reads: The Theme of Love
View Collection