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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Queen Bee of Tuscany Subtitle: The Redoubtable Janet Ross Author: Ben Downing Narrator: Julian Elfer Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins Language: English Release date: 06-17-14 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Ben Downings Queen Bee of Tuscany brings an extraordinary Victorian back to life. Born into a distinguished intellectual family and raised among luminaries such as Dickens and Thackeray, Janet Ross married at 18 and went to live in Egypt. There, for the next six years, she wrote for the London Times, hobnobbed with the developer of the Suez Canal, and humiliated pashas in horse races. In 1867 she moved to Florence, Italy, where she spent the remaining 60 years of her life writing a series of books and hosting a colorful miscellany of friends and neighbors, from Mark Twain to Bernard Berenson, at Pogg