MARYdelany-aristocrat, gardener, prodigious letter-writer, womanoffashion and friend to GeorgeFridericHandel, Jonathan Swiftand King George III, diedchildless more than 220 yearsago.
He then takes on additional risks as he tries to arrange the rescue of a German woman--his sometime lover, currently married to an aristocrat--whose life is in danger because of her anti-Nazi activities.