Empress Dowager Cixi
3 booksEmpress Dowager Cixi was a consort of the Xianfeng Emperor who became the dominant political figure of late Qing China after 1861. Acting through successive child […]
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Euripides
3 booksEuripides was an Athenian tragedian of the fifth century BC. His plays often revisit heroic myths from the perspective of women, captives, foreigners and defeated communities, […]
Frederick Douglass
3 booksFrederick Douglass was an American abolitionist, writer and orator who escaped slavery and became one of the nineteenth century’s most influential advocates of emancipation and equal […]
Gaius Julius Civilis
3 booksGaius Julius Civilis was a Batavian leader who led a major revolt against Roman authority in AD 69–70. His rebellion came during the instability of the […]
Galla Placidia
3 booksGalla Placidia was the daughter of Theodosius I, half-sister of Honorius and one of the most influential women of the late western Roman Empire. Captured during […]
Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex, was a powerful magnate during the English civil war between Stephen and Empress Matilda. He obtained extensive offices and […]
George S. Patton
3 booksGeorge S. Patton is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making and political ambition and government. These works approach the figure […]
Gruffudd ap Cynan
3 booksGruffudd ap Cynan was king of Gwynedd and one of the most important Welsh rulers of the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. Of mixed Welsh, […]
Harriet Tubman
3 booksHarriet Tubman escaped slavery in Maryland and repeatedly returned south to guide other enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad. During the American Civil War […]
Henry Beaufort
3 booksHenry Beaufort was a legitimised son of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, bishop of Winchester and later a cardinal. He served as chancellor under Henry […]