Articles
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Shake It Up: The HNS North America Conference 2021
The Historical Novel Society North America Conference takes place every other year, alternating with our sister conference in the UK. Our mission is ...Read Article
Historical Slang Print Resources for Novelists: Part One
Getting slang right for your time period and location is important for novelists. For historical slang, I found much more information in print ...Read Article
Tracking the Real Virginia: The Invisible Woman by Erika Robuck
Erika Robuck’s sixth novel The Invisible Woman (PenguinRandomHouse 2021), is something of a departure from her previous works. Robuck is best known for “...Read Article
Islanders and Invaders: The Girl from the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat
Jenny Lecoat is perhaps currently better known as being an alternative comedian but her debut novel, The Girl from the Channel Islands (Graydon ...Read Article
New books by Historical Novel Society members, February 2021
Congratulations to our author members on their new book releases. If you’ve written a historical novel or nonfiction work published (or to ...Read Article
Changing Perceptions of History: Elzbieta Cherezińska’s The Widow Queen
WRITTEN BY LISA REDMOND Dedicated to all women about whom history is silent Through the translation skills of Maya Zakrewska-Pim and an American ...Read Article
Allure of the Artist: The Fascination with Creative Artists in Historical Fiction
WRITTEN BY SUSANNE DUNLAP They’re not the political movers and shakers, or witnesses to the biggest moments of history, or even necessarily ...Read Article
Sacred Space: A Conversation with Laura Esquivel about Her Trilogy
WRITTEN BY ADELAIDA LUCENA-LOWER It was only when the Covid-19 pandemic struck and everyone had to shelter at home that many people rediscovered ...Read Article
Band of Sisters: Lauren Willig’s True Account of the Triumph of Hope over Hopelessness
WRITTEN BY M.K. TOD 1917 France. A country torn apart by war. Villages destroyed. Families homeless. Children orphaned. Women pregnant against their will. ...Read Article
A Passion for Words: Ursula Hegi Considers Her Work
WRITTEN BY LISA REDMOND Ursula Hegi’s new novel The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls (Flatiron, 2020) is a multi-voiced historical tale set on ...Read Article
