Fiona Maccarthy is the author of biographies of Eric Gill, William Morris, and Lord Byron. Her most recent book, The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination, was published last year. (April 2013)
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One of a Kind in Cumbria
April 4, 2013
The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine—Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary
by Jenny Uglow
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A Hero of the Gothic
September 24, 2009
God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
by Rosemary Hill
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The First Feminist
December 1, 2005
Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
by Lyndall Gordon
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Notes from Underground
December 16, 2004
The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London
by Sarah Wise
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Skin Deep
October 7, 1999
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
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The Green Pimpernel
March 18, 1999
Citizen Lord: The Life of Edward Fitzgerald, Irish Revolutionary
by Stella Tillyard
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Refuseniks
May 15, 1997
Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser
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How the Other Half Lived
February 6, 1997
The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western EuropeVolume One, 1500-1800 by Olwen Hufton
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The Power of Chastity
December 19, 1996
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
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Star
June 20, 1996
Lola Montez: A Life by Bruce Seymour
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Governess on Speed
November 2, 1995
Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life by Jan Marsh