Margaret George

Margaret George is an American author best known for large-scale historical novels that recreate the lives of prominent figures from the past. Her books combine extensive research with first-person or closely focused narration, presenting rulers, religious figures and other celebrated individuals as complex people shaped by ambition, duty, faith and personal relationships.

Her novels include The Autobiography of Henry VIII, Mary Called Magdalene, Helen of Troy, Elizabeth I and The Confessions of Young Nero. George is particularly noted for the breadth of her historical settings, which range from the ancient Mediterranean and biblical world to Tudor England and imperial Rome. Her work blends documented events with imaginative reconstruction to explore the private lives behind familiar historical reputations.

Periods and events

Julio-Claudian Dynasty Year of the Four Emperors Reign of Nero Tudor Period Reign of Henry VIII Henrician Reformation Dissolution of the Monasteries Caesar’s Civil War Liberators’ Civil War War of Actium Ptolemaic Egypt Late Roman Republic Alexandrian War Elizabethan Age

Series

Series by Margaret George (1 series)

Nero Series in Order

by Margaret George 2 books 4.0

Margaret George’s Nero duology reconstructs the life of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor, beginning with a childhood in which imperial blood makes Nero a target and ending with the collapse of his reign. Told largely through Nero’s own perspective, the series follows his passage through the courts of Caligula…