![]() ![]() He married for a third time in 1663, to former nurse Elizabeth Minshull, and until his death on November 8, 1674, he lived with her in seclusion. With the Restoration, Milton was punished for his support of Parliament by a fine and a short term of imprisonment. In 1656, he married his second wife, Katherine Woodcock, who died two years later, shortly after giving birth to a daughter who lived only a few months. He became totally blind in about 1652 and thereafter carried on his literary work helped by an assistant with the aid also of the poet Andrew Marvell, he fulfilled his government duties until the restoration of Charles II in 1660. ![]() ![]() In his writings, Milton supported the parliamentary cause in the Civil War between Parliamentarians and Royalists, and in 1649 he was appointed Latin secretary to the Council of State by the government of the Commonwealth. In 1642, he married the 17-year-old Mary Powell, who left him after a few weeks because of the incompatibility of their temperaments, but was reconciled with him in 1645 she died in 1652. ![]()
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