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
Lauren Willig's The Girl from Greenwich Street looks behind the history of
America's first recorded murder trial
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On the evening of December 22, 1799, Elma Sands, a young woman of
illegitimate birth, donned her best calico gown and left her cousin Caty’s
boardinghouse...
8 hours ago
What a great review, (another!), you must be very proud, and rightly so.
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