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Cleaners and Cowkeepers’ Wives: Isabella Ford & the Suffragists of Leeds
Strong women. Northern women. The two seem to have been fixed in the national consciousness since Ena Sharples and Elsie Tanner first went ...Read Article
The Price of Beauty: Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Goodwin’s The Fortune Hunter
The loveliest woman in Europe. Such was the burden of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary during the Victorian period. Known ...Read Article
The Magic of Frog Music
Emma Donoghue discusses her latest novel. The gold rush is over, and San Francisco is growing into the eclectic Californian city we know ...Read Article
New Voices: Elisabeth Gifford, Tim Leach, Sophia Tobin & Louise Turner
Elisabeth Gifford, Tim Leach, Sophia Tobin, and Louise Turner have created imaginative debut historical novels foreshadowing a year of memorable reading ahead! Tim ...Read Article
The Wife’s Tale? Through the Eyes of Women Who Loved Famous Men
Readers with an eye to what is hot in historical fiction might well have observed a recent trend. Novels focusing on a famous ...Read Article
A Remarkable Partnership: Nancy Horan’s Under the Wide and Starry Sky
“Writing historical fiction about real people allows me to explore the ‘why’ questions that arise out of the facts of the subjects’ lives,” ...Read Article
The Haunted Imagination: John Harwood on the Victorian Gothic Novel
The popularity of the Gothic story in novels and films shows no sign of declining. With the global appeal of JK Rowling’s ...Read Article
The Stars Align: Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries
Short-listed for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, Eleanor Catton’s novel is a tale of the 1860s New Zealand gold rush. The Luminaries (Little ...Read Article
The Love of Storytelling: Anne Perry’s Writing Inspirations
Anne Perry, who has sold over 26 million novels worldwide since 1979, talks about the inspiration for her novels and her series of Christmas novellas. ...Read Article
WSP Masterclass Series 2013: 3: Anthony Quinn on ‘astonishing disparities’
The Walter Scott Prize shortlisted authors are at the pinnacle of contemporary literary historical fiction. We have asked each of them how they ...Read Article