candace robb
walking the Mean Streets of Medieval York
Tag: women’s history
Another Much-Maligned Woman Brought to Life
I had the pleasure of reading an advanced copy of Susan Higginbotham’s novel The Queen of Last Hopes this past autumn, and thought I’d share the note I wrote to her editor: From the moment King Henry appears in The Queen of Last Hopes… Continue Reading “Another Much-Maligned Woman Brought to Life”
Writing Women's Lives
Toward the beginning of her recent biography of Cleopatra*, Stacy Schiff comments on how little specific information about Cleopatra is extant. What did she look like? “Only her coin portraits–issued in her lifetime, and which she likely approved–can be accepted as authentic.” Most of… Continue Reading “Writing Women's Lives”
Writing Women’s Lives
Toward the beginning of her recent biography of Cleopatra*, Stacy Schiff comments on how little specific information about Cleopatra is extant. What did she look like? “Only her coin portraits–issued in her lifetime, and which she likely approved–can be accepted as authentic.” Most of… Continue Reading “Writing Women’s Lives”
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