Out of a mere handful of facts known about the life of a lyric poet so famous in her lifetime (or shortly after it) that she was known as the 10th Muse and from the bare thousand or so lines left to us out of nine volumes of collected works, Peggy Ullman Bell has distilled an appropriately lyrical novel of the life of the woman known as The Poetess (as Homer was known simply as The Poet). more
A woman's adventures in Gold Rush California: Mary Smathers' Unfamiliar
Territory
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Reinvention is the name of the game in Smathers’ fabulous epic of Gold Rush
California, which sees her heroine, Juanita Castro de la Cruz, forced to
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What a great review, (another!), you must be very proud, and rightly so.
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