The Books
‘Kate Williams has excelled herself. One is engaged from the very first line..
She has perfected the art of historical biography...her pacy writing is underpinned
by the most impeccable scholarship’
Alison Weir
‘An admirably researched biography... Clare Mulley has done Eglantyne proud.
Her informative and sensitively written biography will put SCF's founder, and through
her SCF itself, well and truly on the global map.’
Daily Mail
‘A lively, almost novelistic account of an aristocratic family... Tinniswood’s
portraits are intimate, compelling, and deftly situated within the broader historical
period, so that the turbulence of the seventeenth century is rendered as a human
drama.’
New Yorker
Women in History
This panel of distinguished biographers discuss famous and less famous women
of history - the subjects of their recent books.
Tuesday 13th October 7.30pm
Grove Building
Entry: £6.00 in advance, £7.00 on the door
Adrian Tinniswood, lecturer, broadcaster and well-known author with
an international literary and academic reputation returns to the festival to
bring his research into The Verneys - A True Story of Love, War and Madness
in Seventeenth-Century England to this year's discussion.
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Clare Mulley is the award-winning author of The Woman Who Saved
the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb. Clare discovered a note from
Eglantyne Jebb whilst working for Save the Children and immersed herself in the
life of the charities founder before completing the biography for which she won
the Daily Mail Biographers’ Club prize.
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Kate Williams not only writes fascinating studies of the lives of
famous women, for example; Becoming Queen, her book on the early life
of Queen Victoria, but also broadcasts regularly on TV and Radio and contributes
to newspapers and periodicals. She also presents a series of lectures on various
aspects of women's contributions to history.
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