Lady Roxana Reflects

A Novelisation of Roxana, or, the Drawing-Room by Lady Montagu

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), wrote a poem entitled Roxana, or, the Drawing-Room which consists of a series of sharp, satirical portraits of fashionable society—scenes of flirtation, rivalry, vanity, and quiet despair. This novelisation reimagines those scenes as a continuous story. In it, Lady Roxanaemerges as a woman of ambition, wit, and vulnerability. Her journey from drawing room to church pew traces a week of masks dropped and truths revealed.