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This is a well-researched and engagingly written group biography of four sisters, daughters of a duke and great-granddaughters of King Charles II of England and one of his mistresses. Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox all wrote to each other (and third parties) constantly, leaving a trove of ...
This is a very interesting historical biography, though weirdly conceived. The subtitle should be read not as a description of George III’s siblings but a qualification on who the book is about, and it's not George III, despite the cover image. Of the nine siblings, the youngest, Caroline Matilda, g...
It's a good book but not a great book. It's really a series of essays on various members of Geroge III's family and their relationship with him and how their own relationships were fraught with problems and issues. There were serious problems and issues during his reign, and one of the biggest was...
Interesting read about a remarkable group of sisters whose lives spanned France, England and Ireland.
Tides of War is a historical novel set in the 1800s (which I think of as the Jane Austen time period) and focuses on the Peninsular war against Napoleon. Newlywed Harriet Raven is left behind by her husband Captain James Raven as he joins Lord Wellington's troops and we see the action from both per...
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