Signs of Cleopatra: History, Politics, Representation

by Mary Hamer

Hamer, Mary, Signs Of Cleopatra: History, Politics, Representation

164 pages, Paperback

Published January 22, 1993

About the author

I was educated as a Catholic girl at a convent grammar school and after that at Oxford but I grew up a secret rebel. Reading Kipling’s Jungle Book, as a child gave me the first hint that there was a different, more exciting way to see the world. After reading English at Oxford I taught for many years and published works of non-fiction. Then ten years ago I began to research the dangerous lives of Rudyard Kipling and his sister, Trix. I started to realise that only fiction could do justice to their story. Kipling & Trix was my first novel and it won the Virginia Prize for Fiction.