Picture of the Day for February 20, 2021. I’m totally obsessed with the All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness who is a professor of history at the University of Southern California. This is PhD-level fiction about vampires and witches and daemons. Nothing stereotypical about how the author handles this genre. The sense of history is so rich and she makes historical figures seem so real. I was listening to a podcast recently and the presenter mentioned the “man who had the largest private library in Elizabethan England.” I knew, from reading the novels, that it was a reference to John Dee who was Queen Elizabeth’s astrologer and owned 3,000 printed books and 1,000 manuscripts. Definitely impressive for the 16th century.
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