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Dr John Dee
Websites
John Dee
http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/dee.html
Catalog/Files/dee.html
Facts and figures relating to Dr Dee, including an evaluation of his scientific achievements and the story of his at times tempestuous relationships with his patrons.
John Dee and the Secret Societies
www.levity.com/alchemy/h_dee.html
Academic article by Ron Heisler that attempts to discover the political and religious significance of certain episodes in Dr Dee's life and the clues they give to the secret culture of the late Elizabethans.
Time Traveller's Guide to Tudor England
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/
history/guide16/index.html
General introduction to Elizabethan England with information on witches, magic and sorcery.
Books
The Queen's Conjurer: The science and magic of Dr Dee by Benjamin Woolley (HarperCollins, 2001) £15.99
New biography of Dr Dee, the 16th-century English scholar, scientist and political adviser who became obsessed with magic and the occult.
The House of Dr Dee by Peter Ackroyd (Penguin, 1994) £7.99
Novel in which the young Matthew Palmer discovers the secrets of Elizabethan magus Dr Dee, former resident of his Clerkenwell house.
The Marquis de Sade
Websites
The Marquis de Sade
www.popsubculture.com/pop/bio_project/
marquis_de_sade.html
Biography of de Sade, with bibliography and links.
Marquis de Sade – A Life
www.neilschaeffer.com/sade/index.htm
Website of de Sade's biographer, includes the Marquis's letters from prison.
The Marquis de Sade: Sex, Sacrilege and Sublimity
www.crimelibrary.com/classics/marquis/
Detailed biography of de Sade, includes graphic descriptions of some of his unsavoury escapades.
Books
At Home with the Marquis de Sade by Francine du Plessix Gray (Pimlico, 2000) £15
This biography places de Sade in the complex political situation that saw him demonised as the image of both the worst excesses of the French aristocracy and the worst excesses of the revolution that destroyed it.
120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade (Arrow, 1991) £12.99
De Sade's most famous work is a catalogue of sexual deviations that degenerate into ever-increasing cruelty as a group of captives (mainly children) are tortured to death.
The Sadeian Woman: An exercise in cultural history by Angela Carter (Virago, 1979) Out of print but may be available from your library
Classic account of how de Sade's images of women are echoed in popular culture today. The only non-fiction book by this brilliant novelist.
Grigori Rasputin
Websites
The Home of Rasputin
http://homepage.eircom.net/~pbarry/ras2/
History of Rasputin, man and myth, with a translation of the last letter he wrote in 1916.
Palace Biographies
www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/Rasputin.html
Brief history of Rasputin's life.
The Spala Crisis of 1912: Rasputin explained and Aleksei found
www.npsnet.com/alexei_found/
The story of Rasputin's relationship with Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Aleksandra centres on the Spala episode of October 1912 when their son Aleksei appeared to be on the brink of death but suddenly recovered after the arrival of a telegram sent by Rasputin.
Books
Rasputin by Edvard Radzinsky (Weidenfeld, 2000) £20
New biography of Rasputin, peasant and mystic, is based on previously unavailable sources.
Rasputin by Harold Shukman (Sutton Publishing, 1997) £4.99
Rasputin figures in Russian history as a malign and destructive force, but Harold Shukman argues that his purposes were ostensibly beneficent.
Aleister Crowley
Websites
Aleister Crowley
www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1896/
crowpage.html
Overview of the life and work of Crowley.
Aleister Crowley: Biography
www.hitthaler.freeuk.com/people/
crowley/crowley.htm
Biography of Crowley, with a timeline and good photo gallery.
Books
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley by Aleister Crowley (Arkana, 1989) £25
This autobiography details Crowley's upbringing, mountaineering exploits, travels, philosophy, illnesses and adventures in 'magick'.
A Magick Life: A biography of Aleister Crowley by Martin Booth (Coronet, 2001) £8.99
New biography of Crowley.
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