Books by Jane Draycott
Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome
by Jane Draycott
Male Roman writers, such as Cicero, were not kind about Fulvia (born 80 BCE), calling her "a woman as cruel as she is greedy." She married three powerful men, the last of whom was Mark Antony, who left her for Cleopatra before getting himself killed at Actium. It was one of many tragedies in Fulvia's life. In this biography, historian Jane Draycott painstakingly reconstructs the life of this elite woman of the Roman Republic and tries to separate the misogynistic stereotyping from the real woman.
Interviews where books by Jane Draycott were recommended
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Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
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The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes
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Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome
by Jane Draycott -
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The Traitors Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany and the Spy Who Betrayed Them
by Jonathan Freedland -
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Baldwin: A Love Story
by Nicholas Boggs -
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True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
by Lance Richardson
New Biographies
New Biographies
Among the new biographies coming out in 2025, the lives of literary figures have been particularly prominent, including new books about Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish adventure writer, and Shakespeare’s rival Christopher Marlowe, who was stabbed to death aged 29. Also popular are reconstructions of lives from the distant past that we know little about, including the first King of England and Fulvia, the first wife of Mark Antony.
