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Elisabeth Storrs

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Sydney, Australia

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Historical Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Romance

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Elisabeth Storrs has a great love for the history - both trivia and the serious stuff. She is the award-winning author of the A Tale of Ancient Rome saga which was endorsed by Ursula Le Guin, Kate Quinn and Ben Kane. Now she’s hurtling centuries forward with FABLES & LIES, a novel set in WW2 Germany about the Aryan myth, crazy Nazi archaeology, and a race to save Trojan Treasure during the fall of Berlin. She is the founder and program director of the Historical Novel Society Australasia, and a former Deputy Chair of Writing NSW. In 2020, Elisabeth headed the team that introduced the $150,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize to the ANZ literary calendar. She lives in Sydney with her husband in a house surrounded by jacarandas. She is also a membe ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 3,757 ratings · 398 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Wedding Shroud (Tales of Ancient Rome, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 2,088 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Dice (Tales of Ancient Rome, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 898 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Call to Juno (Tale of Ancient Rome #3) 4.32 avg rating — 624 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dying for Rome: Lucretia's Tale 3.65 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I dadi d'oro (I racconti dell'Antica Roma Vol. 2) (Italian Edition) by Elisabeth Storrs (Goodreads Author), Giovanna D'Onofrio (translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wedding Shroud: A heartbreaking tale of love and destiny in Ancient Rome (A Tale of Ancient Rome Book 1) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Garbo & the Swedish Queen – History Girls

My latest post in the History Girls blog is about Greta Garbo’s meteoric rise to stardom from a ‘lather girl’ in a barber shop to a screen goddess. She was keen to make a movie Queen Christina, about the controversial and scandalous C17th Swedish queen. MGM granted her wish but it was a very Hollywood take!

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Tales of Ancient Rome (3 books)
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Short Tales of Ancient Rome (1 book)
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“This one will be demanding. She already knows her own mind. Lady Caecilia would have to be careful her husband did not overly pamper his little princess. Having a strong will was one thing. Being a brat was another.”
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“she’d feared she would have no more love to give. But she’d soon discovered that love was not finite. It expanded each time she bore another child. Arnth”
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“sometimes there has to be suffering to gain benefit. We must stand strong in adversity.”
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“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
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“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
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