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    Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography
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    Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography

    By Marion Meade

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    "Marion Meade has told the story of Eleanor, wild, devious, from a thoroughly historical but different point of view: a woman's point of view."Allene Talmey, Vogue.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Group
    Release dateNov 1, 1991
    ISBN9781101173930
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    Marion Meade

    MARION MEADE is the author of Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? and Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties. She has also written biographies of Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Madame Blavatsky, and Victoria Woodhull, as well as two novels about medieval France.

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