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It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
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King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.
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I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
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I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
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I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
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That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
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Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
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I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
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I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.
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As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.
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The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
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People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
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