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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 the wake of Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra, this is an attempt to similarly rescue the wife of her antagonist, Augustus, from the demonization of ancient historians. Livia Drusilla of the Claudii (58 B.C.E.–29 C.E.) was vilified by Tacitus and later by

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Queen Victoria: A Life of Contradictions

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

In this 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 how her own...

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Behind the 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 dense and tedious portrait of British writer Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) that begins in 1910 with the legal troubles of Victoria, the author’s mother, who acquired a scandalous reputation for her...

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

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

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

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