Article: Josephine: A Life of the Empress.(Review)

Josephine: A Life of the Empress. By Carolly Erickson. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. 373. $27.50.)

The well-known author of this book, once again, undertakes an examination of the life of a famous woman. In this instance, it is a biography of Josephine de Beauharnais Bonaparte written for the general reader. Prior to her work on Josephine, Carolly Erickson gave us the biographies of Elizabeth I and Marie Antoinette. In these earlier biographies, and this new one of Josephine, she uses language to evoke the eras in which each woman lived. Perhaps as part of her effort to re-create Josephine's time period, Erickson cites a few recent works, but she ...

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