The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette (Hardcover) by Carolly Erickson

from joririchardson

When I picked up this book at my used bookstore, I looked skeptically at the cover. It looked to me like another fluffy, shallow book about a princess or queen, who is portrayed in a fancy dress with her head cut out of the frame (so inventive). However, I reminded myself that you cannot judge bo...

from coffee.is.yum

This is my first Marie Antoinette novel. While it was a decent portrayal of Marie Antoinette, it's lacking in the whole diary aspect. I felt like I was more reading a catalog of events rather than someone's diary. Yes, she mentions she is secretly in love with someone...and apparently Erickson be...

from christieesmith

What if Marie Antoinette left a hidden diary in her cell as she left for her date with the guillotine? A diary that detailed her thoughts and feelings for 20 odd years of her life, from a teenager in Austria to the new dauphine (and later queen) of France to Citizeness Capet, despised by a France...

from BookAddictDiary

Non-fiction author Carolly Erickson jumps into the fiction market with The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette, a novel about the infamous queen who famously told the French populace to "eat cake" told her in own voice. At a young age Marie Antoinette, or, at the time, Antonia, was sent away from he...

from brainella

This book is an invented journal written by Marie Antoinette, the queen of France who was sent to the guillotine during the French Revolution in 1793. The book starts out with her childhood as Austrian Archduchess Maria Antonia -- her royal family, the death of her sister and her ultimate betroth...