Amazons of Paris
Susanna ForrestViral photographs of an enigmatic Belle Epoque horsewoman set me hunting through archives and circuses from St Petersburg to Paris to uncover the lives of women who were artistes, survivors, and scapegoats of the nineteenth century.
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I started out working in erotica in London, and somehow it led to chasing wild horses in Mongolia, getting spooked in St Petersburg, living in Berlin for 15 years, moving to Sweden, and hunting for daredevil women of the 1800s.
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