Author: Brown, Ivor
Title: Dark Ladies
Description: Collins, 1957, 1st edition. Cloth, dj, VG/VG. 319pp, b/w map, index, edges of the slightly browned dustjacket a little worn, otherwise a nice copy. Hardback with dustjacket. ¶ A literary & critical biography of 4 semi fictional women from antiquity who's lives are part fact & fiction. The author looks at the truths behind the myths of the lives of Helen of Troy, Sappho of Lesbos, Cleopatra & Shakespeare's Dark Lady.

Keywords: mythology, literature, literary criticism, shakespeare