![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For it is not Louis XIV whom Antonia Fraser has chosen to tackle in her latest biography, but the women in his life. Sampling the early autumn biographical crop you might be forgiven for thinking that the past was run not by artists, kings and aristocrats but by their less-favoured lovers, friends and siblings, a job lot whom the late Ben Pimlott once dubbed "the valets of history". Lady Trevelyan and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood by John Batchelor 288pp, Chatto & Windus, £25Ĭasanova's Women: The Great Seducer and the Women He Loved by Judith Summers 384pp, Bloomsbury, £20 Katey: The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter by Lucinda Hawksley 416pp, Doubleday, £20Īn Aristocratic Affair by Janet Gleeson 464pp, Bantam, £20 Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Antonia Fraser 416pp, Weidenfeld, £25 ![]()
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