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Historical person
5th century BCE
Esther is the Jewish heroine of the Book of Esther who becomes queen at the Persian court and intervenes to prevent the destruction of her people.
The person is linked because Angela Hunt portrays this figure under a biblical or historical identity. Private speech, emotional motives and undocumented relationships in the novel are imaginative reconstruction; for biblical figures, chronology and the degree of independent historical corroboration may remain uncertain.
Series
Dangerous Beauty retells the lives of Esther, Bathsheba and Delilah, three biblical women whose beauty places them close to male power and exposes them to danger. Each novel reconstructs a distinct ancient court or conflict while giving the woman at its centre a private history, divided loyalties and…
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