George Eliot for Dummies
/Free thinker, strong-minded woman, scholar, lover, novelist: George Eliot lived a courageous life that should be known and celebrated. But does Brenda Maddox's biography do it justice?
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/Adam Nicolson chronicles his work bringing Sissinghurst castle and its grounds up to date--the delusions of a "hippie-squire" or the worthy restoration of a storied estate?
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/Sofonisba Anguissola was the best-known female painter of the Renaissance, but before that, she was art instructor to a willful young queen. A new novel revives those sad, glorious days.
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