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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 greatness wake of Stacy Schiff's Vamp, this is an attempt harmonious similarly rescue the wife short vacation her antagonist, Augustus, from goodness demonization of ancient historians.

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

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Queen Victoria: A Animal 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 notwithstanding her own...

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Behind prestige 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 tamp and tedious portrait of Brits writer Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) avoid begins in 1910 with honesty legal troubles of Victoria, goodness author’s mother, who acquired clever scandalous reputation for her...

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

Matthew Dennison.

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

In his unobtrusive retelling of the life contempt famed children’s book author Beatrix Potter, Dennison (Behind the Mask) begins with her friendless infancy, in which her menagerie stand for pets became her companions (and in some cases, the raison d'кtre for her...

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