Naomi Mitchison's 1947 novel about events two hundred years earlier - in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745 - as a family, based on her own ancestors, gathers at Gleneagles.
Eschewing Plutarch and Shakespeare's tale of Mark Antony's fatal romance, Naomi Mitchison's 'Cleopatra's People' starts with the next generation, with the children of the Queen and of Charmian, one of her 'mates'. The impact of Cleopatra's life and personality is reflected through them, and their efforts to follow in her wake.
Anna Comnena is described as the first female historian, the author of her father's celebratory biography. She was an educated princess in eleventh-century Constantinople, the daughter of the Emperor Alexius. She was expected to succeed him, and raised as heir, but her hopes were dashed by the birth of a younger brother.
Mitchison's first novel, published in 1923, five years after the end of World War I. It is about wars, but historic ones - Julius Caesar's bloody and gradual conquest of Gaul; and Instead of Caesar's lists of victories and setbacks, it is abut the impact of these wars on her Gallic hero Meromic. With an Introduction by Isobel Murray.
On February 24th, 1934 - shortly after the civil war in Austria and the defeat of the Socialists - Naomi Mitchison left England on a visit to Vienna in order to do what she could to relieve the terrible distress of the defeated. This is her record.
Retells in realistic terms and colloquial dialogue the story of the passion and death of Jesus, hour by hour, as it unfolds over the twenty-four hours of Good Friday.
'This breathtaking recreation of life in the ancient world welds the power of myth and magic to a stirring plot.' Ian Rankin
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