Fiona MacCarthy

Fiona Maccarthy is the author of biographies of Eric Gill and William Morris. Her most recent book is Byron: Life and Legend. (December 2005)

From the Review

December 1, 2005: The First Feminist

Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon

December 16, 2004: Notes from Underground

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

October 7, 1999: 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

March 18, 1999: The Green Pimpernel

Citizen Lord: The Life of Edward Fitzgerald, Irish Revolutionary by Stella Tillyard

May 15, 1997: Refuseniks

Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser

February 6, 1997: How the Other Half Lived

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

December 19, 1996: 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

August 8, 1996: Inventing Lola (letter)

June 20, 1996: Star

Lola Montez: A Life by Bruce Seymour

November 2, 1995: Governess on Speed

Christina Rossetti: A Writer's Life by Jan Marsh

Books by Fiona MacCarthy

Byron: Life and Legend (2004)
William Morris: A Life for Our Time (1995)
Eric Gill (1989)
British Design Since 1880: A Visual History (1982)
The Simple Life: C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds (1981)
All Things Bright and Beautiful; Design in Britain, 1830 to Today (1972)