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Natalie is the editor of My London Your London, an independent cultural guide featuring theatre, gallery and museum reviews, and also blogs at Philobiblon, on history, culture, Green politics and all things feminist. She's the founder of the Carnival of Feminists, and Managing Editor and Books Editor on Blogcritics.
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Book Review: Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature - Reading Women's Lives 1600-2680 by Sharon Cardamn Seelig
Asks what did the women mean, how were they feeling, and how do I feel when I read them?
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Book Review: Witness to Extinction - How We Failed to Save the Yangtze River Dolphin by Samuel Turvey
Even more than the story of species conservation, this is a cautionary tale for all efforts of conservation.
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Book Review: St Pancras Station by Simon Bradley
An odd little book, mostly an architectural history, but with some great snippets of social anecdote about one of the great train stations of Europe.
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Book Review: Return to Chauvet Cave - Excavating the Birthplace of Art: The First Full Report by Jean Clottes
The closest we can get to the brilliantly preserved traces of the previous users - human and animal.
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Book Review: Marie Antoinette - The Last Queen of France by Evelyne Lever
No, she wasn't faithful, but the reasons for that were understandable, and human.
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Book Review: The Real Queen of France - Athenais and Louis XIV by Lisa Hilton
We can do with positive, approving accounts of powerful women – particularly those who've started from practically nowhere.
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Theatre Review (London): The Cordelia Dream at Wilton's Music Hall
This was quite the worst time I've had at the theatre in a very long while.
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Books Review: The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall and The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Two competitors for 'The Great Climate Change Novel' prize run in balanced parallel.
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Theater Review (London): The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes at Wilton's Music Hall
The waning days of the repressive Protectorate being replaced by the hysterical gaiety of the Restoration is a period with great possibilities.
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Theater Review (London): The Ides of March at the White Bear
A gripping, fast-moving plot explores complex issues of political and individual rights in the age of truly terrifying terrorism.
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