My life in 8 words: "Live to write, write to live"
Catharine Arnold's Books
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City of SinA vivid historical portrait of London as a city of vice and sexual exuberance from Roman times to the present day.Read More -
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NecropolisA vivid historical narrative of how London has dealt with its dead from pagan burial rites through the Black Death to the Blitz and the death of DianaRead More
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Underworld London: City of CrimeA quirky, fascinating portrait of the capital's dark and criminal underbelly throughout historyRead More
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Catharine Arnold Revealed
Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Death or Glory
Q. With whom in history do you most identify?
A. It's more than one person; elements in the character of Siegfried Sassoon, Vita Sackville-West and the French writer Colette all strike a chord with me.
Q. How would you describe perfect happiness?
A. In this world, nothing can be perfect; but I'd settle for a family picnic at Calke Abbey, a good day in the Rare Books Room at the University Library, or riding my favourite horse up the meadow and looking down to see the clouds sweep across the valley where my husband is watching cricket on the village green.
Q. What’s your greatest flaw?
A. Lapses of self confidence
Q. What 3 personal qualities are most important to you?
A. Honesty and intregity coupled with a humane understanding of human nature.
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Pocklington Post, June 20, 2011
...London, he wrote, ‘without falling into some sort of crimes. Every quarter of it abounds in great obscenities’. Catharine Arnold’s entertaining and colourful journey through centuries of sex and debauchery in London proves that if Paris is the city...
