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She is the author of the bestselling novels The Autobiography of Henry VIII (1986), Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles (1992), The Memoirs of Cleopatra (1997), Mary, Called Magdalene (2002), Helen of Troy (2006), Elizabeth I (2011), The Confessions of Young Nero (2017), and The Splendor Before the Dark (2018).
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While she claims not to choose fictional settings based on their infrequent usage by other writers, she has said, "I wouldn't dare do the Civil War, because it's so well known, every damn detail, it would be so stifling." [citation needed] Floating Worlds (1976), is a science fiction novel written in a similar style.
Quinn's novels often focus on women's unexpected roles in history [5] [6] such as military snipers, spies, and code breakers. Her works have been set in several historical eras, including five novels that take place during the Roman Empire, two books about the Borgias in the Italian Renaissance, and most recently a series of novels set in the 1940s and 1950s, centering on the events during and ...
In 'By Any Other Name,' the bestselling author drew from her own experiences as a woman in theater Jodi Picoult’s New Historical Fiction Takes on Sexism Through the Ages: ‘Little Has Changed ...
Northgate House, Bury St Edmunds, home to Lofts from 1955 until her death in 1983. Norah Ethel Robinson was born in Shipdham, Norfolk to Isaac Robinson and Ethel Garner, and grew up in Bury St Edmunds where she was educated at Guildhall Feoffment Girls School and the County Grammar School for Girls in the town.
Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise, by Dan Gemeinhart Coyote Sunrise is a 12-year-old living a very unconventional life: traveling cross-country in a school bus with her father.
She began writing books and short stories in her early twenties. In 1929 she married children's author and illustrator John Robert Monsell, who created the covers for some of her books. [2] Her novels were esteemed for the accuracy of their historical research, and she became a noted authority on the Elizabethan and early Stuart era.