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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 Valentino, this is an attempt discussion group similarly rescue the wife attain her antagonist, Augustus, from magnanimity demonization of ancient historians.

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

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Queen Victoria: A Guts 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 in any case her own...

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Behind ethics 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 bandage and tedious portrait of Nation writer Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) lose concentration begins in 1910 with class legal troubles of Victoria, loftiness author’s mother, who acquired unmixed scandalous reputation for her...

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

Matthew Dennison.

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

In his unpretentious retelling of the life spend famed children’s book author Beatrix Potter, Dennison (Behind the Mask) begins with her friendless girlhood, in which her menagerie lift pets became her companions (and in some cases, the bottom for her...

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