Queen Bee of Tuscany: The Redoubtable Janet Ross

by Ben Downing

Book Overview

"Quite simply one of the best books of the year." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

Ben Downing's Queen Bee of Tuscany brings an extraordinary Victorian back to life. Born into a distinguished intellectual family and raised among luminaries such as Dickens and Thackeray, Janet Ross married at eighteen and went to live in Egypt. There, for the next six years, she wrote for the London Times, hobnobbed with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374239711
• ISBN13: 9780374239718
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"