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Alexandre Dumas

Book Review: Milady by Laura L. Sullivan

By Angie Barry

July 3, 2019

From the glittering ballrooms of 17th Century England to the dangerous intrigues of the French court, in her new novel Milady, Laura L. Sullivan brings an unlikely heroine to the page, turning on its head everything we’ve been told about The Three Musketeers and their ultimate rival. “Un pour tous,” I said. “One for all.”…

Don’t Poison the Patriarchy

By Laura L. Sullivan

July 2, 2019

My book, Milady, is a new take on The Three Musketeers—with the story told from the point of view of literature’s most notorious villainess, Milady de Winter. In Dumas’ tale she’s harshly condemned. But in Milady, we see another side to her story and realize the Musketeers were the villains all along. Despite her virtues,…

The Antihero This World Deserves

By Thom Truelove

July 25, 2016

Some of their fans may protest, but Milady de Winter (of The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas) and Armand Chauvelin (of The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy) are not true antiheroes. Certainly, they are sympathetic villains, and it might be interesting how those tales would have been told absent their titular characters. That premise—the missing…

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