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Margaret George

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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

Alexandrian War48–47 BCE Battle of Actium31 BCE Dissolution of the Monasteries1536–1541 CE Essex Rebellion1601 CE Great Fire of Rome64 CE Late Roman Republic133–27 BCE Liberators’ Civil War43–42 BCE Ministry and Crucifixion of Jesus27–33 CE Ptolemaic Egypt305–30 BCE Reign of Caligula37–41 CE Reign of Claudius41–54 CE Reign of Nero54–68 CE Spanish Armada1588 CE Year of the Four Emperors69 CE

Historical fiction

Historical fiction series by Margaret George (1 series)

Nero Series in Order

by Margaret George 2 books 4.0(5,563)

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…

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Standalone historical fiction by Margaret George (4 books)

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