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Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer
39.99 AUD
Category: History
'Essential reading.' Claire Tomalin Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. From the fourteenth century through to the present day, women who write have been understood as mad, undisciplined or dangerous. Female writers h ...Show more
Patriot or Traitor - The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh by Anna Beer
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Category: Biography
A major historical biography: the dramatic, harrowing and contested story of Sir Walter RaleghVisionary or charlatan? Toy boy or Renaissance man? Sexual predator or devoted family figure? Patriot or traitor? Ralegh biographer Anna Beer sheds light on the contested final days of one of the most famous fi ...Show more
Patriot or Traitor - The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh by Anna Beer
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Category: Biography
A BBC History Magazine Book of the YearA writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Ralegh lived more lives than most in his own time, in any time. The fifth son of a Devonshire gentleman, he rose to become Queen Elizabeth's favourite, only to be charged with treason by her succ ...Show more
Sounds and Sweet Airs - The Forgotten Women of Classical Music by Anna Beer
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Category: History
Francesca Caccini. Barbara Strozzi. �lisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. Marianna Martines. Fanny Hensel. Clara Schumann. Lili Boulanger. Elizabeth Maconchy.Great composers all, but their musical legacy is still rarely acknowledged.Since the birth of classical music, those women who dared to compose have bee ...Show more
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