Esther Queen of Persia

Standard Name: Esther,, Queen of Persia

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names Hester Biddle
  • BirthName: Hester
    The form Hester is now in most common use. Biddle also used Ester or Esther, probably to align herself with Queen Esther in the Old Testament of the Bible. Her surname at...
Publishing Norah Lofts
The following year she gave one of her recent subjects a book to herself: Esther, whose New York edition appeared in 1950 and its London edition (from Michael Joseph ) in 1951. The popular-reprint...

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1689: Jean Racine's tragedy Esther (this time on...

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1689

Jean Racine 's tragedy Esther (this time on a biblical, not a classical subject) was both produced and published; it was translated into English under the same title in 1715.
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