Margaret Crosland, Author Sutton Publishing $29.95 (186p) ISBN 978-0-7509-2338-5
Crosland (Simone de Beauvoir) is intrigued by strong women, yet her positioning of Madame de Pompadour as an early feminist as well as influential royal mistress (""Her long `reign' illustrates perfectly how far feminism, in its guise of super-femini
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Margaret Crosland, Author Putnam Publishing Group $16.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-399-13088-5
Two decades after her death, Edith Gassion, the Parisian singer known as Piaf, remains a mystery; even the plaques that mark her places of birth and death are false indicators. Crosland, a British author who has written biographies of Cocteau and...
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Margaret Crosland, Author Fromm International $8.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-88064-069-5
This well-balanced biography of Edith Gassion, the Parisian singer known as Piaf, examines the unusual quality of her singing. Disappointingly, though, the book ""does not come alive.'' (April)
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Margaret Crosland, Author Trafalgar Square Publishing $22.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-434-14902-5
This conversational and useful biography breaks little new ground, but it does offer an even-tempered and panoramic view of the life of a great thinker. Crosland's attempt to present de Beauvoir as a sensitive and in many ways traditionally feminine
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