Annelise freisenbruch wikihow

Annelise was born in Bermuda in 1977, and studied Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, receiving her PhD in 2004. In 2010, her first book The First Ladies of Rome was published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and by Free Press in the United States (where it appeared as Caesars’ Wives: Sex, Power and Politicsin the Roman Empire).

Annelise freisenbruch wikihow

Her first novel Rivals of the Republic was published in 2016 by Duckworth in the UK and by The Overlook Press in the United States. 

A history of the wives, daughters, mothers and sisters of Rome’s emperors, The First Ladies of Romereceived widespread critical acclaim, including excellent reviews in the The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Mail on Sunday, The Independent, The Guardian and The Irish Times, and was named as a Non-Fiction Book of the Year in The Scotsman.

It has been translated into eight languages. Annelise was interviewed about the book on the BBC’s Woman’s Hour and has also appeared in an episode of PBS’s Sec