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Susanna Forrest

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Horses are an incredible key to exploring history and culture, not least because humans seem to be so confused about them. Do we eat them or cherish them? Improve them or ruin them? Celebrate or use them? These are the kinds of issues I explore in my books.

Who were the Amazons of Paris?

Black and white image of the circus horsewoman Zephora Furr from MUCEM. Nineteenth-century photograph of a white woman with curly hair and feather hair decoration, pearl choker, and open-necked dress with white fur trim.

Join me on Substack for my Amazons of Paris newsletter and find out:

Who was Zephora Furr and what connects her to the Beatles, the Berlin Wall, and a Polish prince?Which courtesan competed in one of the earliest Olympics?Which Hippodrome stuntwoman went on to a career in crime?How a horse walked a tightrope in nineteenth-century Paris.

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