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Virginia Rounding is an author, editor, proofreader and indexer, and a professional member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading. Her most recent book is The Burning Time, an investigation of the circumstances, motivations and deaths of the men and women burnt at the stake - and of those who set fire to them - in London in the mid-16th century.

Her previous book was a fresh examination of the lives of the last Emperor and Empress of Russia: Alix and Nicky: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina. A reviewer commented in the Washington Times: ‘she has brought them to life in flesh and blood perhaps better than any previous writer on the subject. This is partly a result of her skill in rooting out and quoting commentary on th ...more

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	Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power 4.02 avg rating — 1,436 ratings — published 2006 — 20 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
	Alix and Nicky: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina 3.82 avg rating — 723 ratings — published 2012 — 9 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
	Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans 3.73 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 2003 — 11 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
	Life, Life: Selected Poems by Arseny Tarkovsky, Virginia Rounding (Goodreads Author) (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2001 — 13 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
	The Burning Time: Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London 3.69 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2017 — 7 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
	Serving the Parish by Martin Dudley, Virginia Rounding (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006 — 2 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
	The Parish Survival Guide by Martin Dudley, Virginia Rounding (Goodreads Author) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004 — 2 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
	Awaiting an Epiphany: Poems for St.Bartholomew the Great 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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	AMPHIBIOUS HABITATS: Entornos arquitectónicos entre la tierra y el mar by Marcela Aragüez Escobar, Gregorio Astengo, Virginia Rounding (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“The four courtisans or grandes horizontales whose lives and legends are examined in this book were all, in different ways, representative of the demi-monde in nineteenth-century Paris - that is, of that half-world midway between respectable high society and the low life of the common prostitute. demi-monde is a term suggestive of twilight, of a world of shifting appearances and shadow, where nothing is quite what it seems, a world between worlds.”
― Virginia Rounding, Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans

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“One learns more,’ she said to me one day, ‘talking to ignorant people about their own affairs, than in addressing oneself to”
― Virginia Rounding, Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power

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“73. Cromwell’s love of all things Italian was highly unusual for a Londoner. Andreas Franciscius had been aghast to discover on his visit to the capital that its inhabitants ‘not only despise the way in which Italians live, but actually curse them with uncontrolled hatred’. This was corroborated by another Italian visitor of the period: ‘The English are great lovers of themselves, and of everything belonging to them; they think that there are no other men than themselves, and no other world than England; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner they say that “he looks like an Englishman” … They have a great antipathy to foreigners, and imagine that they never come into their island, but to make themselves master of it, and to usurp their goods.”
― Tracy Borman, Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant

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