Poisonous Women
Reading List
Eve
- The First Love Story: Adam, Eve, and Us by Bruce Feiler
- Paradise Lost, by John Milton
- The Book of Genesis (duh)
Cleopatra
- Cleopatra, A Life by Stacy Schiff
- Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the Marriage of the Century by Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger (explains a lot about the modern image of Cleopatra)
Lucrezia Borgia
- The Borgias: The Hidden History by G.J. Meyer
- The Pope’s Daughter: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia by Dario Fo
- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
- The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity In An Age Of Beauty by Alexander Lee
Marie Antoinette
- Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antoinia Fraser
- Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Caroline Weber
- The Private Life of Marie Antoinette by Madame Campan (also sold as Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette)
- The Queen’s Lover by Francine du Plessix-Gray
Jackie O
- Jackie, Janet & Lee by J. Randy Taraborrelli
- America’s Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Sarah Bradford
- Happy Times by Lee Radziwill