Helen Rappaport

About The Author

Helen Rappaport was born in Bromley, Kent, and studied Russian at Leeds University, before working as a translator and copy editor. She has been a full-time writer for more than twenty-three years and is the author of numerous works of history, including four previous books on the Romanovs and Russian Revolution. Her most recent book is In Search of Mary Seacole. She lives in Dorset. 

Books by Helen Rappaport

The Rebel Romanov
'What a wonderful book! The storytelling, the research, the deep love of her subject -- this must be the climax of Rappaport's long and illustrious career'
Lucy Worsley

To Queen Victoria she was Aunt Julie; to Catherine the Great she was Grand Duchess Anna Feodorovna, gra...
In Search of Mary Seacole

The Making of a Cultural Icon

'An astonishingly rich story... wonderfully informative' The Times
'Rappaport does a terrific job of bringing respectful rigour to her account of Seacole's extraordinary life' Daily Mail

In Search of Mary Seacole is a superb and revealing biography tha...
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