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 alone: Allegra Goodman's Isola
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Allegra Goodman’s newest novel shows how life as a young 16th-century
noblewoman offers no guarantees. Not a life of wealth, not a prosperous
marriage, not...
1 week ago
What a great review, (another!), you must be very proud, and rightly so.
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