Carolly Erickson
Autor(a) de The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette
About the Author
Carolly Erickson (born 1943) is an author of historical fiction and non-fiction. She lives in Hawaii. She is a historian and the author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette, The First Elizabeth, Great Catherine, Alexandra and many other prize-winning works of fiction and nonfiction. She earned mostrar mais her doctorate in history from Columbia University. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Carolly Erickson
Associated Works
The Frontier in American Development: Essays in Honor of Paul Wallace Gates (1969) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Erickson, Carolly
- Data de nascimento
- 1943-04-12
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Locais de residência
- Hawaii, USA
- Educação
- University of Washington (B.A., 1963)
Columbia University (Ph.D, History, 1969) - Ocupações
- historian
novelist
professor (history) - Organizações
- University of California Santa Barbara
Mediaeval Academy of America
American Historical Association
Medieval Association of the Pacific
West Coast Association of Women Historians
Phi Beta Kappa
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Carolly Erickson is a distinguished biographer and historian as well as an historical novelist. She writes primarily about famous women in European history. "I have found the past compelling since the age of fourteen or so," she once remarked. Even before she began her undergraduate work in history at the University of Washington, she had "a feeling I might some day write history for the general reader." To support herself, she has played the piano in cocktail lounges in New York City. She currently spends part of her year in Hawaii and part in the Lake Chelan Valley in Washington State.
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Our Tempestuous Day: A History of Regency England por Carolly Erickson
This book serves as a readable and interesting history of Regency England. Erickson explores a range of topics from the political and military to Luddite risings and social happenings. I learned new things about the period and was fascinated by the presentation of a much darker era than what is often reflected in popular fiction.
Here's what I wrote in 2008 about this read: "OK, a quick read that taught some good history regarding the final wife of Henry VIII, Catherine Parr. She was scholarly and a good stepmother to his children, and risked losing her life in his court, too."
Y si la noche anterior a su muerte en la guillotina María Antonieta hubiera dejado en su celda de la cárcel un diario en el que contara su vida? Su privilegiada infancia como archiduquesa austriaca, los lujosos años de gran dama de Versalles y los meses de condena durante la Revolución francesa ya no serían uno de los secretos mejor guardados de todos los tiempos.
Carolly Erickson deja hablar por sí misma a una de las mujeres más calumniadas de la Historia: el miedo en la aterradora noche en que la muchedumbre parisina irrumpió en el dormitorio de palacio con la intención de asesinarla junto al resto de su familia; el angustioso intento de huir de Francia disfrazada; la captura y los lúgubres meses de dura cautividad; y su sufrimiento cuando su esposo fue guillotinado y su hijo arrancado de sus brazos para siempre.… (mais)
Carolly Erickson deja hablar por sí misma a una de las mujeres más calumniadas de la Historia: el miedo en la aterradora noche en que la muchedumbre parisina irrumpió en el dormitorio de palacio con la intención de asesinarla junto al resto de su familia; el angustioso intento de huir de Francia disfrazada; la captura y los lúgubres meses de dura cautividad; y su sufrimiento cuando su esposo fue guillotinado y su hijo arrancado de sus brazos para siempre.… (mais)
Awesome book...I couldn't put it down.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 38
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 7,870
- Popularidade
- #3,088
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Críticas
- 191
- ISBN
- 283
- Línguas
- 12
- Marcado como favorito
- 12
- Pedras de toque
- 162