Vanora bennett biography for kids

  • Biography.
  • Vanora Bennett is the author of two acclaimed novels, Portrait of an Unknown Woman and Figures in Silk, and an award-winning journalist.
  • Vanora Bennett studied Russian at Oxford University and in the USSR.

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    Portrait of an Unknown Woman, bygd Vanora Bennett

    Historical novels once lurked in despised corners labelled genre fiction. Now, they take centre-stage, nudging literary fiction back to the wings. Vanora Bennett's romping debut offers a portrait of the artist, Hans Holbein, as passionate genius, colouring in as backdrop the tumultuous religious battles accompanying the English Renaissance and Reformation.

    Painting with a broad brush, she follows the fortunes of adventurer-painter Holbein and heretic-chaser Thomas More. Holbein arrives at More's Chelsea house to make preliminary sketches for a group portrait of his patron's extended family. Admiring the adult children's wit, learning and beauty, he becomes first intrigued by More's adopted daughter, Meg Giggs, then falls passionately in love with her. Meg, however, has fallen in love with a childhood tutor, John Clements, and marries him.

    Trouble starts when family secrets början to surface like splinters from thumbs. History happens

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    Blood Royal

    February 28,
    Once upon a time there was a beautiful young princess of France named Catherine who had a mad-as-a-hatter father and a scheming evil mother. The poor princess and her younger brother Charles were all but forgotten by their awful parents and wore rags for clothing and had to forage for food. One day members of the English King's court came to propose marriage to Catherine and in this company's service was a ung Welshman named Owain Tudor. Owain and young Catherine became friends of a great scholar named Christine de Pizan (not ganska sure how that came about but this is a fairy tale after all), and they were soon BFF - until they got older and then welltrue love, of course.

    Eventually the beautiful princess marries the English king to escape her awful parents and has a baby boy, but you know that fairytales don't last alltid. The King dies (no spoilers, this is known history) and leaves Catherine and her ung child at the mercy of the those awful Engl
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    Given that you’re reading this article, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that you like reading books. Even if I’m wrong, the fact that you’ve made it a sentence in proves that you’re literate and will have, inevitably, read some book of some kind in your life. I personally attach a lot of importance and emotions to my most beloved books. In fact, where others might have a comfort food, a comfort film, or a comfort song, for a sense of security I usually turn to a comfort book. And up until very recently, this book was Vanora Bennett’s Midnight in St Petersburg.

    Thus far, all the books I’ve focused on have been rather renowned to say the least – they are either classics or have been brought into the limelight thanks to successful adaptations. However, I often find that lesser-known books can have more of a lasting effect on their reader: there are no expectations attached to the reputation of a famous author, and so the connection you form with the book is a more intimate one