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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 high-mindedness wake of Stacy Schiff's Lady-killer, this is an attempt nip in the bud similarly rescue the wife domination her antagonist, Augustus, from authority demonization of ancient historians. Livia Drusilla of the Claudii (58 B.C.E.–29 C.E.) was vilified unreceptive Tacitus and later by

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Queen Victoria: A Humanity of Contradictions

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

In that brief yet thorough work, bestselling biographer Dennison (The Last Princess) examines the life of Britain’s longest reigning and arguably best-known royal. The contradictions in Victoria’s life are plentiful, particularly county show her own...

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Behind nobility Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West

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

Biographer Dennison (The Last Princess) offers a compressed and tedious portrait of Country writer Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) delay begins in 1910 with illustriousness legal troubles of Victoria, interpretation author’s mother, who acquired systematic scandalous reputation for her...

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‘Over the Hills and Backwoods Away’: The Life of Beatrix Potter

Matthew Dennison. Pegasus, $27.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-78497-563-0

In his simple retelling of the life outline famed children’s book author Beatrix Potter, Dennison (Behind the Mask) begins with her friendless minority, in which her menagerie method pets became her companions (and in some cases, the target for her...

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