Cry of the Peacock (51 page)

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.R. attended Brigham Young University, Idaho, where she earned a degree in Interior Design, while, at the same time studying English Literature, Art History and Sociology. When she is not writing, she is designing impractical clothing, redecorating her historical homes, or making impossible demands of her husband of seventeen years.

Currently, V.R. makes her home in Appalachian Virginia, where she lives with her three children, seven cats and a dog named Jasper.

V.R. is a member of
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fter training in Classical and Early Music, B. Lloyd studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, where she graduated in 2005. She has taken part in art fairs and exhibitions in Italy and Holland, including the Ootmarsum Art Fairs and Wierden Art Events.

B. Lloyd is also a writer and the founder of
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B. Lloyd lives and works in Venice.

For more information about B. Lloyd and her work, please visit her website at,
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Quoted material:

George Eliot. 1876.
Daniel Deronda
. New York: Harper and Brothers.

Cover art:

Proud Peacock
, by woozie2010 [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Chromolithograph engraving
Dytchley Hall
by Alexander Frances Lydon and found in F.O. Morris's
County Seats
, circa 1880.

Illustrations by B. Lloyd.