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Natalie Haynes

Natalie Haynes
Natalie Haynes is the author of six books, including A Thousand Ships, which was a national bestseller and was shortlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction. She has written and recorded seven series of Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics for the BBC. Haynes has written for the Times, the Independent, the Guardian and the Observer. Pandora's Jar is her latest book. She lives in London.


Is Clytemnestra an Archetypically Bad Wife or a Heroically Avenging Mother?

Natalie Haynes on the Motivations of a Maligned Figure
March 28, 2022  By Natalie Haynes
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