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    Ten Women with a Past
    Ten Women with a Past
    Ten Women with a Past
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    Ten Women with a Past

    By Will Coe

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    Articles are: Belle de Jour by Samuel Pepys; Carla Bruni-Sarkozy by Joséphine de Beauharnais; Cheryl Cole by Helen of Troy; Josephine Bernadette Devlin McAliskey by Grace O'Malley (Grainne Ni Mhaille); Kate Middleton by Wallis Simpson; Gillian McKeith by Hippocrates; Sarah Palin by Lizzie Borden; Katie Price by Nell Gwynn; Delia Smith by King Alfred the Great; JK Rowling by the Brothers Grimm

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWill Coe
    Release dateNov 16, 2011
    ISBN9780957002524
    Ten Women with a Past
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    Will Coe

    Editor and Publisher of Egopendium, an online magazine featuring artcles by historical figures about current personalities who share their talents or experiences. Author of 'The Archer Prism', a fictional autobiography of Elizabethan writer-soldier-spy, Sir John Harington

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      Ten Women with a Past - Will Coe

      TEN WOMEN WITH A PAST

      Precedented people Vol. 1

      BY WILL COE

      Ten women of today assessed by those who preceded them.

      A selection of articles published during 2011 in Egopendium.

      TEN WOMEN WITH A PAST

      Precedented people Vol. 1

      by WILL COE

      A Wilcooperative publication

      Published in Great Britain 2011

      by Wilcooperative Publishing

      59 Crow Lane

      Husborne Crawley

      Bedford

      MK43 0XA

      UK

      Smashwords edition

      ISBN 978-0-9570025-2-4

      Copyright Will Coe 2011

      The right of Will Coe to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the prior permission of the copyright owner.

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      TEN WOMEN WITH A PAST

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: Belle de Jour by Samuel Pepys

      Chapter 2: Carla Bruni-Sarkozy by Joséphine de Beauharnais

      Chapter 3: Cheryl Cole by Helen of Troy

      Chapter 4: Josephine Bernadette Devlin McAliskey by Grace O'Malley (Grainne Ni Mhaille)

      Chapter 5: Kate Middleton by Wallis Simpson

      Chapter 6: Gillian McKeith by Hippocrates

      Chapter 7: Sarah Palin by Lizzie Borden

      Chapter 8: Katie Price by Nell Gwynn

      Chapter 9: Delia Smith by King Alfred the Great

      Chapter 10: JK Rowling by the Brothers Grimm

      Chapter 1: Belle de Jour by Samuel Pepys

      MRS PEPYS WOULD NOT UNDERSTAND

      Samuel Pepys assesses fellow diarist, Dr Brooke Magnanti, aka Belle de Jour

      My wife would not understand why I am so moved by the diaries of Belle de Jour. She would draw conclusions that are misplaced.

      For ten years I spied on my own thoughts, deeds and aspirations, committing them to paper unflinchingly every day in tachygraphic code while keeping their readership to one my entire life. Over the next four hundred years, I and countless other people have wondered why.

      A diary can be more searing than a mountebank’s dental extraction. If there is not pure pain within it somewhere, the diarist is either a mere record keeper or blindly travelling the pot-holed avenue of self-delusion. An aide memoire is not a diary. A diary scours the nerve endings and applies poultices in equal measure. A diarist must have the steady hand of the barber-surgeon or they may sever an artery. No one but they may know of their deathly bleeding because a diary should only ever have one reader in mind.

      Yet how delicious it is to read another’s closely private thoughts, to be intimate

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