Marian Fowler, Author . Ballantine $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-44486-8
Billed as the biography of the Hope Diamond, this comprehensive but overwritten book traces the cherished jewel's history from its formation in India more than a billion years ago to its current status as museum treasure. In her painstaking saga
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Marian Fowler, Author Viking Books $19.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-670-82027-6
Canadian author Fowler animates history with her comprehensive account of a spectacular English landmark. Construction started on the Oxfordshire mansion in 1702, a gift from Queen Anne to John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, victor at the Battle of
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Marian Fowler, Author Penguin Books $14.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-010617-6
Construction began in 1702 on this Oxfordshire mansion, a gift from Queen Anne to a victor at the Battle of Blenheim and the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill. Fowler comprehensively details the often scandalous behavior of the spectacular...
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Marian Fowler, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (319p) ISBN 978-0-312-11289-9
Between 1870 and 1914, 100 American women married into British nobility, usually offering wealth in exchange for social status. In this lively and gossipy biography, Fowler (Below the Peacock Fan: First Ladies of the Raj) describes five marriages...
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Marian Fowler, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14757-0
Reading this curious and frustrating book is like playing a game of Trivial Pursuit based on the history of fashion. There are lots of anecdotes, well told, many familiar, about the five disparate women spotlighted here: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,...
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