Books written by Miranda Seymour
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Chaplin's Girl: The Life and Loves of Virginia Cherrill
'Tommy Lee was the best dancer in California,' she declares—and sighs when Teresa queries this dashing boyfriend's sudden change of name. Never mind about his name, Virginia responds. The point—the.
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The Reluctant Devil
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Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley's own life was as dramatic as her fiction.
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Thrumpton Hall: A Memoir of Life in My Father's House
Recounts how the author and her family became casualties of her father's attachment to a Nottinghamshire estate that he forfeited nearly everything to acquire, and how their lives were thrown into turmoil by her father's abrupt embrace of ...
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In Byron's Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter
But her hidden devotion to Byron and her tender ambitions for his mercurial, brilliant daughter reveal a deeply complex but unexpectedly sympathetic personality.Drawing on fascinating new material, Seymour reveals the ways in which Byron, ...
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The Pity of War: England and Germany, Bitter Friends, Beloved Foes
Miranda Seymour tells the remarkable story of England's centuries of profound connection and rivalry with Germany.
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Mary Shelley
An evocative portrait of Mary Shelley captures the turbulent and dramatic life of a woman who, at the age of sixteen, eloped with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, dealt with the loss of four children and tragic drowning of her husband, and ...
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Robert Graves: Life on the Edge
Robert Graves (1895-1985) was one of the greatest poets and polymaths of the twentieth century, whose long life matched the intensity of his imaginative output.
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The Vampire of Verdonia
The Vampire of Verdonia
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Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale
One name links Betrand Russell and Axel Munthe, Augustus John and Henry Lamb, H.H. Asquith and Duncan Grant, Aldous Huxley and Lytton Strachey.