ABSTRACT
They also wished to encourage admirers of the Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss (her best-known books) to read and enjoy her other writings. Finally, they wanted to correct some common misconceptions about her, especially her supposed neglect of women. It is certainly true that she created important male protagonists, including the emperor Hadrian, but she also created a wide variety of aggressive as well as passive women characters, and these women occupy various social classes from peasant to empress. In her novels and short stories the reader will find women from history, myth, and legend, as well as from life itself.
