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Bios of Famous Women of History with recommended books

         

Titles and Authors

Pages with
Mercifully SHORT Reviews or the Actual Review

Isabella: Queen Without a Conscience by Rachel Bard

Isabelle d'Angoulême

 

 

Frederick the Great

Naples area

Amazon: Book: The Firebrand: A Novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley  Troy

Books The Forest House / Lady of Avalon / Priestess of Avalon / The Mists of Avalon (series) by Marion Zimmer Bradley (and Diana L. Paxson)  King Arthur

DVD The Mists of Avalon

Briseis

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Quotations Dr

Amazon: Render Unto Caesar by Gillian Bradshaw  Rome

Quotations Dr

Amazon: The White Rhino Hotel  (series) by Bartle Bull  Colonial Africa  

Quotations A

 

Amazon: Roman Nights by Ron Burns (series)  Rome

Lucilla

Amazon: The Long Journey Home / Trail of the Spanish Bit: Spanish Bit Saga, Number 1 (series) by Don Coldsmith  Native America

Southwest Kansas

Amazon: Sharpe's Tiger (series)  Napoleonic Wars /  Gallows Thief  / The Archer's Tale  (series) (Late) Medieval Europe by Bernard Cornwell  / The Last Kingdom (Alfred the Great)

(series) 

Quotations So

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Judith

  Chicago
Quotations Ch

 

Ireland

Quotations I

Amazon: The Robe (series) by Lloyd C. Douglas  Early Christianity

Rome

 

Medieval France

Isabelle

 

Punic Wars

Dido

 Rome

Naples area


Solomon and Sheba

Candace

  Helen

Briseis

Amazon: When We Were Gods: A Novel of Cleopatra by Colin Falconer  Cleopatra


Conquest of Mexico

 

Ottoman Empire

 

Quotations Ci through Cn and Cleopatra

 

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Malinche

 

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Quotations Tu

British Raj
Amazon:  Get Out or Die (series) by Jane Finnis  Roman Britain

Boudicca

 

Medieval Wales

 

Medieval Germany

Quotations W

 

 

 

 

 

 

I loved Nicole Galland's The Fool's Tale, so I was thrilled with the publication of Revenge of the Rose.  It's just as good.  Enjoy!  Nancy

Amazon: The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel by Margaret George  Cleopatra

Cleopatra

Amazon: The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh  Burma

Quotations B

Amazon: Pushing the Bear by Diane Glancy  Native Americans

Lozen

 

Medieval Wales

With the publication of Jane Marie's novel, The Goodbye Lie, we argued about the kind of book it is.  Yes, it's historical.  Yes there's suspense and action.  But it's most definitely a romance in the no detailed sex scenes school of story telling.

Likewise, Nectar From a Stone by Jane Guill has romance and action in an accurate historical setting.  The sexual references and incidents are powerful but necessary to the story.  Nancy

 Rome

Naples Area

(series) Vikings

Quotations V

Amazon: A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson  Holocaust

Quotations Pe

Amazon: Emperor: The Gates of Rome (series) by Conn Iggulden  Julius Caesar

Cleopatra

Amazon: Aztec  (series)   Aztec Autumn  /  Aztec Blood by Gary Jennings  Aztecs

Malinche

 Renaissance Italy

Rome

Amazon: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor  US Civil War

A Soldier Goes Home

Amazon: The Book of Eleanor by Pamela Kaufman  Eleanor of Aquitaine

Quotations Du through Dz

Amazon: East Anglia by William P. Kennedy  WWII

Fathers

 Nazis

 Quotations G

Amazon: The Gilded Chamber by Rebecca Kohn  Queen Esther

Jewelry Bios

Amazon: The Horse Goddess by Morgan Llywelyn  Scythians

Epona

Amazon: The Rock : A Tale of Seventh-Century... by Kanan Makiya  Jerusalem

Quotations Di through Dir

Amazon:  The Balkan Trilogy (series) by Olivia Manning  WWII

Briseis

Amazon: The First Man in Rome (series) by Colleen McCullough  Rome

Quotations Ro

Amazon: Nzingha: Warrior Queen by Patricia McKissack  Africa

Nzingha

Amazon: Hawaii by James Michener  Hawaii

Liliuokalani

Guenevere: Queen of the Summer Country (series) by Rosalind Miles  King Arthur

Amazon: Isolde: Queen of the Western Isle (series) by Rosalind Miles  Iseult/Isolde

Guinevere

 

Isolde

Amazon: The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy  Holocaust

Lozen

Isolde

Amazon: When Christ and His Saints Slept (series) by Sharon Kay Penman  Empress Matilda

Quotations H

(series)

 

Quotations Sp

 

Alexander the Great

Roxanne

Amazon: Under the Eagle (series) by Simon Scarrow  Roman Britain

Boudicca

Amazon: Cassandra, Lost by Joanna Catherine Scott  French Revolution

Romance

Amazon: Desiree by Annemarie Selinko  Napoleon

Désirée

 

Taj Mahal

Lakshmi Bai

AmazonSeventh Scroll (series)  Egypt / Birds of Prey  Colonial Africa (series) by Wilbur Smith

Quotations Ad through Ag

Amazon: Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart  King Arthur

Guinevere

AmazonThe Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone  Michelangelo

Rome

Amazon: The Twentieth Wife: A Novel (series) by Indu Sundaresan  Mogul India

Beading Diary 2002

Amazon: Shadowbrook: A Novel of Love, War, and the Birth of America  Colonial America

 

City of Dreams: A Novel of Early Manhattan

                                                                        series

Erie, Pa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Travel to New York City, Philadelphia and Atlantic City

Amazon: Fatal Majesty: A Novel of Mary, Queen of... by Reay Tannahill  Mary, Queen of Scots

Quotations Sc through Sd

Amazon: Throne of Isis  Cleopatra

Pillar of Fire  Nefertiti

Queen of Swords  Crusades

White Mare's Daughter (series) Prehistoric Nomads

by Judith Tarr

Cleopatra

Nefertiti

Melisende

Quotations H and Epona

 

Mexican War
Amazon: Over the Wine-Dark Sea by H. N. Turteltaub (series)  Greece

Quotations G

Amazon: Kristin Lavransdatter: The Bridal... by Sigrid Undset  Late Medieval Norway

Queen Margaret

Amazon: Exodus  Holocaust / Trinity Ireland (series) by Leon Uris

Quotations U

Quotations Sp

Amazon: The Skystone (Whyte, Jack. Camulod... (series) by Jack Whyte  King Arthur

Guinevere

(series)
French revolution romance

Quotations Ro

Amazon: No Dark Place  (series) by Joan Wolf  Norman England

 

Alfred the Great

Quotations Mi

 

 

 

 

Judith

Amazon: The Blessing Stone by Barbara Wood  Multiple Eras

Jewelry Buying FAQs

Amazon: The Birth of Blue Satan (Blue Satan... (series) by Patricia Wynn  Georgian England

Quotations Ro


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