It’s almost certainly apocryphal but one story goes that in November 1695, the composer Henry Purcell returned home to find himself unable to enter his house. Unimpressed by her husband’s late-night carousing, Mrs Purcell had locked the door and was in no mood to open
Doomed romance
Oct 16, 2023
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