I imagine this might be tedious to some, but I did enjoy the subject matter and the research. a) I was quite surprised the very, very public washing of dirty linen by the then Prince Regent and his wife. b) The descriptions - and effects - of bloodletting were rather shocking; no wonder the 19th cen...
Well documented with footnotes and a bibliography, Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte still manages to be accessible and highly engaging. Any biography of Josephine will necessarily include Napoleon, and theirs is an eye-popping story of poverty, passion, politics, ego, o...
bookshelves: spring-2014, biography, published-2005, nonfiction, history, prostitution, lifestyles-deathstyles, london, radio-4x Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from May 02 to 09, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01lvb07Description: She was the most famous woman in England–the bea...
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This should have been a winner with me, a pre-Peeler Victorian murder mystery with an undercurrent of mental illness, this one was largely a miss for me. There were moments that worked, but overall it just wasn't me. Catherine Sorgeiul lives in Spitalfields with her Uncle. She is getting older an...
Note: please click on See Review to see the illustrations.The so-called Regency Romance is a popular genre of historical romantic fiction. Usually the story is set roughly in the first twenty years of 19th century Great Britain, when the Prince of Wales served as regent for his insane father, King G...
This should have been a winner with me, a pre-Peeler Victorian murder mystery with an undercurrent of mental illness, this one was largely a miss for me. There were moments that worked, but overall it just wasn't me.Catherine Sorgeiul lives in Spitalfields with her Uncle. She is getting older and ...
Kate Williams’ debut novel, The Pleasures of Men, is more than a murder mystery. While a serial killer preying on young girls in a downtrodden part of London is a key figure in the novel, it is as much about Catherine’s search for happiness, or at least a sense of acceptance, in a society that is ul...
2.5 stars. I wanted to like this a lot more than I did but the dry dialogue and bit of slow story kind of did it in for me on this one. The writing is extremely skilled and detailed and well researched, that's for sure. But I just couldn't connect with characters and I found it lacking in entertainm...
I love this review by blogger MADAME GUILLOTINE so I am unashamedly using it...I thank you."‘Catherine Sorgeiul lives with her Uncle in a rambling house in London’s East End. She has few companions and little to occupy the days beyond her own colourful imagination.But then a murderer strikes, rippin...
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