Take Heed of Loving Me

Biographical novel about poet John Donne and Anne More, who defied her father and risked her inheritance to marry the man she loved. Set in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. When Donne was twenty-four, he returned to London from his expeditions to Cadiz and the Azores with the earl of Essex. His secret marriage to his master's niece cost Donne his career as his family grew and turned his life from worldliness to dedication.