“The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life; Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!"
Robert Browning
1812-1889

“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
Virginia Woolf
1882-1941

Josephine Duggan has a passion for the history of Europe’s royal families. Sophia of Hanover: Ancestress of the Royal Family is a biography of the ancestress to all of the current serving royal families of Europe. As mother of King George, she is the link between the Hanover and Stuart dynasties. The engaging biography of Sophia, a diary keeper and prolific letter writer, will be published in summer 2009 by Peter Owen, London.