Lisa Hilton, Author . Little, Brown $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-316-08490-1
Beautiful, haughty, well bred and, by the author's account, "a superlative lover," Athénaïs de Montespan was a shoo-in for the role of official mistress to King Louis XIV. Despite being married, she spent 12 years in a...
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Lisa Hilton, Pegasus (Norton, dist.), $18.95 paper (512p) ISBN 978-1-60598-105-5
Although intended to breed royal heirs, England's medieval queens offered substantial strength, mental acuity, and personal ambition, beginning with the 1066 Norman invasion's elevation of Matilda of Flanders and up through the Plantagenet Elizabeth
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Lisa Hilton. Pegasus (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-60598-392-9
Even readers unfamiliar with English novelist Nancy Mitford will enjoy the historical sweep of her life as captured by Hilton (Queens Consort). Not quite a straight biography, the book tells the stories, sometimes in parallel and sometimes...
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Lisa Hilton. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-0-544-57784-8
British novelist and historian Hilton (The Horror of Love) argues that Queen Elizabeth I’s virginity is the least interesting fact about her, and that her intellect matters far more. According to Hilton, Elizabeth consciously melded both her...
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