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Lydia Syson

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After an early career as a BBC World Service Radio producer, Lydia Syson turned from the spoken to the written word, and developed an enduring obsession with history. Her PhD about poets, explorers and Timbuktu was followed by a biography of Britain’s first fertility guru, DOCTOR OF LOVE: JAMES GRAHAM AND HIS CELESTIAL BED, and then two YA novels for Hot Key Books set in the Spanish Civil War (A WORLD BETWEEN US) and World War Two (THAT BURNING SUMMER). LIBERTY’S FIRE, a passionate tale of the Paris Commune of 1871, is the third of her novels to be inspired, very loosely, by family history. Her much praised adult fiction debut, MR PEACOCK'S POSSESSIONS, a sophisticated 'Robinsonade' for the twenty-first century set on a remote Pacific islan ...more

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	Mr Peacock's Possessions 3.75 avg rating — 486 ratings — published 2018 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Citoyennes: women of the Paris Commune

First posted May 5th, 2015 (links updated/revised 26.2.26)

The mythical figure of the pétroleuse, hideous or heroic depending on your point of view, has now almost been forgotten. For decades it was the most abiding image of the 1871 Paris Commune, and undoubtedly helped to hide the true history of real women’s involvement in France’s last nineteenth-century revolution. Edith Thomas broke new groun

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Lydia Syson wrote a new blog post Citoyennes: women of the Paris Commune First posted May 5th, 2015 (links updated/revised 26.2.26)The mythical figure of the pétroleuse, hideous or heroic depending on your point of view, ha Read more of this blog post »
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“They are both exposed now, to each other, and also to the wind, which has stirred itself again and buffets and nudges and pushes them from all directions. Only the faintest turning up of his mouth, barely visible- you can hardly see his face for beard- but it seems to Lizzie at this moment that his eyes have been becalmed.”
― Lydia Syson, Mr Peacock's Possessions

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