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"'Stratmann does not seek to defend or exonerate Queensberry. She is more subtle than that. She simply invites us to revise our opinion and move beyond the caricature.....'"

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Review of The Marquess of Queensberry by Jonathan Wright, The Herald Scotland

"'Linda Stratmann presents her defence of Queensberry judiciously and without special pleading. Queensberry is compellingly portrayed .....'"

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Review of The Marquess of Queensberry by The Times Saturday Review

"Linda Stratmann's masterly new biography cautions us to condemn a little less and understand a little more. It is essential for a good biographer, and Stratmann is a very good biographer, to cultivate a degree of sympathy with her subject. Without it she may not plumb his depths, and Queensberry was a man of abysmal depths."

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Review of The Marquess of Queensberry by Roger Hutchinson, The Scotsman

"Doughty is well chosen as the surname of a woman who faces the innumerable barriers to females in the Victorian era with fortitude. "

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Review of The Daughters of Gentlemen by Jennifer S. Palmer

" ... Stratmann writes exceptionally well. Her research both thorough and rigorous, is flawlessly woven into the narrative, and she adopts the language of the Victorian age effortlessly ...In the field of historical crime writing, she is bound to make her mark. "

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Review of The Daughters of Gentlemen by S.J.Bolton

"... rollicking fun, in a sedate pristine way ... at times I was reminded of dear Precious anglicised and transported back to Bayswater in the Victorian era."

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Review of The Daughters of Gentlemen by Janet Dowling, Professional Storyteller.

" I predict that this new calling will win her many new readers and admirers."

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Review of The Poisonous Seed by Helen Bettinson

"These are not only famous cases, but previously unpublished tragedies…..Several of the stories keep the reader guessing until all the evidence is gathered in."

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Review of Essex Murders by Heritage Focus Magazine August 2004

"Stratmann has put together a cast of Dickensian characters ... and woven them into a heady tapestry of innovation ..."

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Review of Chloroform: The Quest for Oblivion by British Journal of Anaesthesia 92(2) 299-300 (2004)

"I feel that I am walking down the street in Frances's company and seeing the people and houses around me with clarity. We are firmly fixed in time and place as this very Victorian crime is dissected."

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Review of The Poisonous Seed by Jennifer S Palmer

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