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Amy Licence: historian of the lives of Medieval, Tudor and early modern women; nineteenth and early twentieth century art, history, literature and culture; writer of literary ficton.

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Friday, 13 September 2013

An Unpredictable Riot? 1913 and Stravinsky's Rites of Spring.

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100 years ago, on a May evening, the audience were taking their seats at Paris’s Theatre Champs-Élysées. It had only been open a few weeks. ...

Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Sydney and Violet Schiff: A new biography of a marginal modern marriage.

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“Sydney and Violet: Their Life with T.S. Eliot, Proust, Joyce and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis ” Stephen Klaidman. ...

Saturday, 14 January 2012

Feasts from the Past

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I love browsing through old menu cards; here's a few I've found recently. A menu card for lunch at Trinity College Cambridge, 30 J...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011

No place for the Innocent.

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"The Great Gatsby" and F.Scott Fitzgerald’s New York. Published in 1925, the decadent romance of The Great Gatsby remains as a...

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Amy Licence: Writing about medieval and Tudor history, with a particular interest in women's lives and experiences. I'm the author of twenty-eight books and have also written for The Guardian, TLS, BBC History website, The New Statesman, The Huffington Post, The English Review and The London Magazine. I've appeared in TV documentaries and have been interviewed numerous times live on radio. I've been shortlisted twice for the Asham Award for women's short fiction and my historical novels have met with acclaim. @PrufrocksPeach

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