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Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain’s Queen Without a Crown – A Feminist History of the Royal Family and Georgian England

by Ann Foster (Goodreads Author)

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The Book of Margery Kempe

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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

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Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World by Maria Tatar

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A certain king and queen had three daughters. The charms of the two elder were more than common, but the beauty of the youngest was so wonderful that the poverty of language is unable to express its due praise. The fame of her beauty was so ...more

Aeneas and Briseis are rumored to be the children of the goddess Venus. The rumors started when their father, Anchises, returned from Phrygia with two exquisitely beautiful children. Even the Greeks have heard that Prince Anchises of Troy was Venus’s lover and she bore him a son and a daughter. What fuels these rumors is the fact that Anchises expects his children to offer prayers and sacrifices to Venus every night before bed.

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“... I revere you! I esteem and admire you above all human beings! you are the friend to whom my soul is attached as to its better half! you are the most amiable, the most perfect of women! and you are dearer to me than language has the power of telling.”
― Frances Burney, Evelina

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