HNR Issue 18 (November 2001)

Rewriting the Women of Camelot: Arthurian Popular Fiction and Feminism

By Ann F. Howey - Published 2001

Genres:

Nonfiction

In this work, Howey’s mission is to “[examine] the intersection of popular fiction and feminism, using popular rewritings of the Arthurian legend ...Read Review

Aztec Blood

By Gary Jennings - Published 2001

Genres:

AdventureMystery/CrimeRomance

A Gary Jennings novel is always a breathless, exotic and occasionally shocking ride, and this is no exception. Third in a trilogy of ...Read Review

Mrs. Jeffries Pinches the Post

By Emily Brightwell - Published 2001

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

It doesn’t pay to be a hypochondriac, as Oscar Daggett learns the hard way when he overhears his long-suffering doctor telling his ...Read Review

A Proper Affair

By Victoria Malvey - Published 2001

Genres:

Romance

Cassandra Abbott, the author of A Lady’s Guide to Proper Etiquette, follows her own advice to the letter. However, she has a ...Read Review

To Davy Jones Below

By Carola Dunn - Published 2001

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Murder aboard a trans-Atlantic liner in 1923–what a perfect setting for a by-the-clues detective story! Daisy Dalrymple, in her ninth mystery adventure, has ...Read Review

The Biograph Girl

By Wiilliam J. Mann - Published 2001

Genres:

Alternate HistoryBiographical Fiction

The best biographical novels compel us to delve more deeply into the true history behind the characters, and this is no exception. In 1910, ...Read Review

Morning

By W. D. Wetherell - Published 2001

Genres:

I was only two pages into this rather lengthy novel about the early days of American television before I said to myself, “Dave ...Read Review

Madame de Pompadour

By Nancy Mitford - Published 2001

Genres:

Nonfiction

As a child, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson went to a fortuneteller who told her that one day she would reign over the heart of a ...Read Review