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City in the Dark

London Fog: The Biography

by Christine L. Corton

February 9, 2017 issue

A Tragic Heroine of the Reading Room

Eleanor Marx: A Life

by Rachel Holmes

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One of a Kind in Cumbria

The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine—Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary

by Jenny Uglow

April 4, 2013 issue

A Hero of the Gothic

God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain

by Rosemary Hill

September 24, 2009 issue

The First Feminist

Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft

by Lyndall Gordon

December 1, 2005 issue

Notes from Underground

The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London

by Sarah Wise

December 16, 2004 issue

Skin Deep

Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery

by Sander L. Gilman

Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty

by Nancy Etcoff

October 7, 1999 issue

The Green Pimpernel

Citizen Lord: The Life of Edward Fitzgerald, Irish Revolutionary

by Stella Tillyard

March 18, 1999 issue

Refuseniks

Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot

by Antonia Fraser

May 15, 1997 issue

How the Other Half Lived

The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe—
Volume One, 1500-1800

by Olwen Hufton

February 6, 1997 issue

The Power of Chastity

Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millennia

by Jo Ann Kay McNamara

Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

edited by Daniel Bornstein, edited by Roberto Rusconi

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Inventing Lola

August 8, 1996 issue

Star

When it came to hissing Lola Montez would develop the hide of a rhinoceros.

Lola Montez: A Life

by Bruce Seymour

June 20, 1996 issue

Letter

Bruce Seymour

Inventing Lola

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Governess on Speed

Christina Rossetti: A Writer's Life

by Jan Marsh

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