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Based on the life of Boadicea.Tags
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The idea that Boudicca's uprising is known only through the biased accounts of the victors, which are likely to be largely unreliable, is given in the prologue, and it seemed to me the only interesting idea expressed in the entire book. The author infers from it a license to present the Boudicca of his imagination: a maternal figure who is almost a goddess, a type of Earth mother. Continued
Couldn’t get into it. Was written ok, not for me
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- Original title
- Red Queen, White Queen
- Alternate titles
- The Pagan Queen
- Original publication date
- 1958
- People/Characters
- Boudica; Gemellus Ennius
- Important places
- Colchester, Essex, England, UK; London, England, UK
- Important events
- Iceni Revolt
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- 83
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- Reviews
- 2
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- (2.58)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 11






























































