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“... by her heroines, lingered on. She has not lacked biographers. The latest to bring her to book, Teresa Ransom, is at pains to probe the mystery about her parentage. First, it is worth revisiting The Sorrows of Satan, which was reprinted as recently as last year.* Miss Corelli, who welcomed the newly educated Board School generation to her bosom, would ...”

“... capturing Sigüenza from them in 1124. She also fought other Christians, including her half-sister Teresa of Portugal. Eleanor of Aquitaine famously accompanied her first husband, Louis VII of France, on the Second Crusade and may have participated in negotiations between him and her uncle, Raymond of Antioch. Much later, as queen of England, she represented ...”