Brenda Maddox
Brenda Maddox is a biographer and reviewer, and frequent contributor to New Humanist. Her most recent book is George Eliot: Novelist, lover, wife (Harper Press)
Articles by Brenda Maddox
The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital by Dan Cruickshank
Brenda Maddox visits the grubby side of Georgian London with Dan Cruickshank
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Diary: The green grass of home
Brenda Maddox celebrates the distinguished life of her husband in a tent in Wales, with Richard Dawkins and Dylan Thomas
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The Artist, the Philosopher and the Warrior by Paul Strathern
Brenda Maddox enjoys some Renaissance history
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The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s Astronomical Ambitions by Claire Brock
Brenda Maddox is swept off her feet by an astronomical biography
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Mr Gray’s Elegy
The playwright and diarist Simon Gray died on August 6, 2008. In this review for 2006 Brenda Maddox reviews the second volume of Gray's 'Smoking Diaries', 'The Year of The Jouncer'
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Lost plot
Brenda Maddox reviews Mary Loudon's memoir of a lost sister
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Dem bones
Brenda Maddox on a remarkable pioneer of paleontology
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Ergo Mania
'I shop, therefore I am'
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Mother of DNA
Brenda Maddox celebrates the “clarity of Rosalind Franklin
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