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SEPTEMBER 2010
THE FIRST LADIES OF ROME
(The Women behind the Caesars )
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by Annelise Freisenburgh. |
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A book that took me a while to read
and a book; I read in short bursts. It gave me a very interesting
insight into the lives of the ladies who loved, supported and betrayed
the very powerful men of Rome. Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius,
Caligula and Nero. |
The author looks into the lives of
the notorious Empress Livia, Augustus´s wayward daughter Julia and
Claudius´s nymphomaniac wife Messalina as well as the saintly wives
like Helena, mother of Constantine.
It was a most enjoyable read and
account of the women who were often undervalued by early historians.
It shows not only their public and political roles but their intimate
domestic domains, their fashions, cosmetics, education, health and
family relationships.....
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AUG.2010
This
month I had two super reads
and an
insight into life in the City of London in the 1950s.
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JENNIFER WORTH, a midwife with a bicycle working in 1950s London has
written these best sellers... |
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one is
“Call the Midwife” ...
and the second “Shadows of the Workhouse”
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[There
is apparently a third title
"Farewell to the East End"]
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and this is the Trilogy available on Amazon |
She
writes about an area around the Port of London with tenements and
disease, where strong women, who often had more than 10 children to
bring up in dirty tenement blocks with no running water survived. But,
it also tells of the families separated into the Workhouse when parents
died or the family had fallen on hard times.
Two
books very difficult to put down once started.
I was
shocked to think that those circumstances were in my time.
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