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Eleanor of Aquitaine, By the Wrath of God, Queen of England/Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (1999)
Eleanor of Aquitaine is my best-selling book to date.
It was the winner of the Good Book Guide award for the best biography of 1999, as voted for by readers in 100 countries.
It is the sixth best-selling historical biography of all time in the U.K..
"An alluringly candid portrait of this most public yet elusive woman… A truly epic landscape of twelfth-century Europe in all its blood and glory." (The Boston Globe)
"Triumphantly done." (Frank McLynn, The Sunday Times)
"Weir approaches Eleanor`s story with an objective eye and a mass of source material. The result is as vivid as it is informative." (The Times)
"Evocative…A rich tapestry of a bygone age, and a judicious assessment of her subject's place within it." (Newsday)
"Lively biography." (The Sunday T
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Reading the Best Biographies of All Time
Eleanor
by David Michaelis
720 pages
Simon & Schuster
Published: October 2020
Published just two months ago, “Eleanor” is the most recent of David Michaelis‘s half-dozen books. Among his best-known previous titles are “N.C. Wyeth: A Biography” which won the Ambassador Book Award for Biography in 1999 and “Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography” which was the first comprehensive and independent exploration of the life of Charles M. Schulz (and generated a modest amount of controversy).
The book’s publisher notes that “Eleanor” is the first single-volume, cradle-to-grave biography of Eleanor Roosevelt in “decades.” Previous one-volume studies include “Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life” by J. William T. Youngs (1984) and “Without Precedent: The Life and Career of Eleanor Roosevelt” by Joan Hoff-Wilson (1984). But most readers intere
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A Remarkable Woman? Popular Historians and the Image of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Evans, Michael. "A Remarkable Woman? Popular Historians and the Image of Eleanor of Aquitaine". Studies in Medievalism XVIII: Defining Medievalism(s) II, edited by Karl Fugelso, Aida Audeh, Alain Corbellari, Carla A. Arnell, Carol Jamison, Carol L. Robinson, Clare A Simmons, E L Risden, Jane Jane Chance, Michael Evans, Nickolas Haydock, Pamela Clements, Richard Utz, Roberta Davidson, Stephen Meyer and Veronica Ortenberg West-Harling, Boydell and Brewer: Boydell and Brewer, 2009, pp. 244-264. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781846157646-015
Evans, M. (2009). A Remarkable Woman? Popular Historians and the Image of Eleanor of Aquitaine. In K. Fugelso, A. Audeh, A. Corbellari, C. Arnell, C. Jamison, C. Robinson, C. Simmons, E. Risden, J. Jane Chance, M. Evans, N. Haydock, P. Clements, R. Utz, R. Davidson, S. Meyer & V. Ortenberg West-Harling (Ed.), Studies in Medievalism XVIII: Defining Medievalism(s) II (pp. 24