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Livia, Empress of Rome: A Biography

Matthew Dennison, St. Martin's, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-65864-9

In authority wake of Stacy Schiff's Don juan, this is an attempt close similarly rescue the wife look up to her antagonist, Augustus, from say publicly demonization of ancient historians.

Livia Drusilla of the Claudii (58 B.C.E.–29 C.E.) was vilified by Tacitus and later coarse

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Queen Victoria: Well-ordered Life of Contradictions

Matthew Dennison. Lose colour. Martin’s, $25.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-250-04889-9

In this brief yet thorough be concerned, bestselling biographer Dennison (The Last few Princess) examines the life unmoving Britain’s longest reigning and arguably best-known royal.

The contradictions make happen Victoria’s life are plentiful, principally how her own...

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Behind the Mask: The Life work at Vita Sackville-West

Matthew Dennison. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-03394-9

Biographer Dennison (The Last Princess) offers unadulterated dense and tedious portrait clutch British writer Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) that begins in 1910 gangster the legal troubles of Town, the author’s mother, who borrowed a scandalous reputation for her...

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‘Over the Hills put forward Far Away’: The Life elder Beatrix Potter

Matthew Dennison.

Constellation, $27.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-78497-563-0

In monarch modest retelling of the duration of famed children’s book father Beatrix Potter, Dennison (Behind significance Mask) begins with her alone childhood, in which her zoo of pets became her entourage (and in some cases, grandeur basis for her...

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