Matthew Dennison, Author St. Martin’s $27.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-312-37698-7
After the death of her beloved Prince Albert, Queen Victoria, an only child with a pathological fear of being alone, turned her ninth child, Beatrice, into her permanent companion, infantilizing her and robbing her of any chance of a normal life....
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Matthew Dennison, St. Martin's, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-65864-9
In the wake of Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra, this is an attempt to similarly rescue the wife of her antagonist, Augustus, from the demonization of ancient historians. Livia Drusilla of the Claudii (58 B.C.E.–29 C.E.) was vilified by Tacitus and later by
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Matthew Dennison. St. Martin’s, $25.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-250-04889-9
In this brief yet thorough work, bestselling biographer Dennison (The Last Princess) examines the life of Britain’s longest reigning and arguably best-known royal. The contradictions in Victoria’s life are plentiful, particularly how her own...
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Matthew Dennison. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-03394-9
Biographer Dennison (The Last Princess) offers a dense and tedious portrait of British writer Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) that begins in 1910 with the legal troubles of Victoria, the author’s mother, who acquired a scandalous reputation for her...
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Matthew Dennison. Pegasus, $27.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-78497-563-0
In his modest retelling of the life of famed children’s book author Beatrix Potter, Dennison (Behind the Mask) begins with her friendless childhood, in which her menagerie of pets became her companions (and in some cases, the basis for her...
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