Story writer. Memory curator. #EarlyModern women's history. Lucy Hutchinson got me started.
#17thC #HistoricalFiction. Once ventured into the #15thC looking for the missing princes.
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Really enjoying this by the wonderful @IanMortimer: a history of England, seen through the many occupants of one house in rural Devon. Beautifully written: remarkable in every way.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry...or post Alex N's gmail account to cause them at least a few minutes of grief when every author who reads this spams them...Oh. Did I just post this? 🤮
I did so because these two [Tuscany and Rosa Mundi] compliment each other so perfectly, both sharing the same medieval quality. These two roses differ from any rose which could possibly be called modern.
The Art Institute of Chicago just acquired Lavinia Fontana's signed and dated Christ Driving Out the Traders From the Temple (1580)
Absolutely honoured to say that Waterstones has picked Hekate as book of the month. Verse novels and poets do not normally get this kind of love, so I am BEYOND grateful for this. 🥹🖤
#earlymodern delighted that this is now out it has been a privilege to work with such fine scholars and a tribute to Betty Hageman who commissioned the volume
This is Freddy and Ozzy. They are transferring data. Please do not disrupt them until the process is complete. 13/10 for both (TT: whatfreddyretrieves)
Elizabeth St.John 📚💙📜Author and Historian
The Kearton Brothers (Richard & Cherry): Born in the tiny Swaledale village of Thwaite in the Yorkshire Dales, these farmers' sons are credited by Sir David Attenborough with inventing natural history photography. In 1895, they published British Birds' Nests, the world’s first
Joanne Harris
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Vita Sackville-West
How one afternoon idly spent looking at family records changed everything.
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Congrats to Carol McGrath on her fascinating new release, The Queen’s Sister. The detailed research into #Tudor social and political history is a great backdrop to this immersive novel. #CoffeePotBookClub #GreatHistoricalFiction @cathiedunn.bsky.social
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Jesse Locker
History and Heritage Yorkshire
Nikita Gill
WeRateDogs
Paul salzman
Annals of AI fuckups: an author forwarded me the email below, in which the book club scammer mistakenly sent the AI output instead of the intended email pitch.
Note the "strategic analysis", which illustrates the scammers' boiled-frog approach
A family discovery, and the story it would not let me ignore
The Queen’s Sister by Carol McGrath A mother, a wife, a woman of substance… At nineteen, Elizabeth Seymour is already a mother, has been recently widowed, and seen her Queen, Anne Boleyn, lose her lif...
