I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.