Historical novelist
This post was first published on the History Girls back in December 2018. It is actually a combination of posts that I first wrote back in 2016, when I was starting out on my journey both as a blogger and as a published author. The topic I discuss here, the use of language in historical fiction, …
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This post was first published on the History Girls back in November. Its rather gloomy tone well suited the dark days of November, and is perhaps less appropriate now that the days are lengthening and bright daffodils are blooming everywhere! Nonetheless, I offer you the story of “The three living and the three dead”... <> I’ve been …
This piece was first posted on The History Girls blog in August 2018. For today’s post, I thought I would again write about something different from my usual histories of the Meon Valley. We spend some time every year – and have done for the past thirty or so years – in south-east France, in the …
Continue reading Σηκωματα, mensa ponderaria, mesures à grains…
You know how much I love talking about writing historical fiction? Well, I’m doing it again this weekend, over on the kickassheroines.com website, where members discuss all manner of bookish things. As part of kickassheroines, Kim Wright runs Ponder the Page, a particular “place for all things Historical Fiction", and, a while back, she asked …
