Ten Women with a Past
By Will Coe
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Articles are: Belle de Jour by Samuel Pepys; Carla Bruni-Sarkozy by Joséphine de Beauharnais; Cheryl Cole by Helen of Troy; Josephine Bernadette Devlin McAliskey by Grace O'Malley (Grainne Ni Mhaille); Kate Middleton by Wallis Simpson; Gillian McKeith by Hippocrates; Sarah Palin by Lizzie Borden; Katie Price by Nell Gwynn; Delia Smith by King Alfred the Great; JK Rowling by the Brothers Grimm
Will Coe
Editor and Publisher of Egopendium, an online magazine featuring artcles by historical figures about current personalities who share their talents or experiences. Author of 'The Archer Prism', a fictional autobiography of Elizabethan writer-soldier-spy, Sir John Harington
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Ten Women with a Past - Will Coe
TEN WOMEN WITH A PAST
Precedented people Vol. 1
BY WILL COE
Ten women of today assessed by those who preceded them.
A selection of articles published during 2011 in Egopendium.
TEN WOMEN WITH A PAST
Precedented people Vol. 1
by WILL COE
A Wilcooperative publication
Published in Great Britain 2011
by Wilcooperative Publishing
59 Crow Lane
Husborne Crawley
Bedford
MK43 0XA
UK
Smashwords edition
ISBN 978-0-9570025-2-4
Copyright Will Coe 2011
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TEN WOMEN WITH A PAST
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Belle de Jour by Samuel Pepys
Chapter 2: Carla Bruni-Sarkozy by Joséphine de Beauharnais
Chapter 3: Cheryl Cole by Helen of Troy
Chapter 4: Josephine Bernadette Devlin McAliskey by Grace O'Malley (Grainne Ni Mhaille)
Chapter 5: Kate Middleton by Wallis Simpson
Chapter 6: Gillian McKeith by Hippocrates
Chapter 7: Sarah Palin by Lizzie Borden
Chapter 8: Katie Price by Nell Gwynn
Chapter 9: Delia Smith by King Alfred the Great
Chapter 10: JK Rowling by the Brothers Grimm
Chapter 1: Belle de Jour by Samuel Pepys
MRS PEPYS WOULD NOT UNDERSTAND
Samuel Pepys assesses fellow diarist, Dr Brooke Magnanti, aka Belle de Jour
My wife would not understand why I am so moved by the diaries of Belle de Jour. She would draw conclusions that are misplaced.
For ten years I spied on my own thoughts, deeds and aspirations, committing them to paper unflinchingly every day in tachygraphic code while keeping their readership to one my entire life. Over the next four hundred years, I and countless other people have wondered why.
A diary can be more searing than a mountebank’s dental extraction. If there is not pure pain within it somewhere, the diarist is either a mere record keeper or blindly travelling the pot-holed avenue of self-delusion. An aide memoire is not a diary. A diary scours the nerve endings and applies poultices in equal measure. A diarist must have the steady hand of the barber-surgeon or they may sever an artery. No one but they may know of their deathly bleeding because a diary should only ever have one reader in mind.
Yet how delicious it is to read another’s closely private thoughts, to be intimate