Great historians can make

Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as well as a wonderful writer, peels away the layers to reveal the true Cleopatraa much more interesting woman than the Hollywood version and, as it turns out, a formidable queen after all. Evan … Read more

Monarchs not only fashion

Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare’s heroines, a woman’s heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her … Read more