HeyJaredHerstory Revisited
Reviews of biographical novels about women from the past and in-depth analyses into why they still matter, along with the facts behind the fiction.
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OTD: Mary Wollstonecraft died on September 10, 1797 (opens the original)
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Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of feminism, died on September 10, 1797, ten days after giving birth to her second daughter, whom the world would one day know as Mary Shelley. Wollstonecraft died from puerperal fever, or septicaemia. She was only 38. <img alt="" clas
Push Not the River (opens the original)
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Did you know Poland didn’t exist for 123 years? From 1795 to 1918, this Slavic nation literally disappeared from the map. With no regard for the people of Poland, eighteenth-century world superpowers Austria, Prussia, and Russia divided it among themselves. Push Not the River, part one of James Conroyd Martin’s impressive Polish Trilogy, shines a spotlight on the tragic partitions that eliminated Poland for over a century. The novel
The Art of Independence (opens the original)
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As promised in my post last week where I reviewed The Vow, today I’m sharing a video authors , , and and I put together on how incorporating art and artists into historical fiction brings readers closer to the past. You can view the video <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/artofindependence/p/the-art-of-independence?r=1yke0n&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnS
The Vow: A Novel about Angelica Kauffman (opens the original)
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If you’re new to Herstory Revisited, welcome! After two large book giveaways in June, my subscriber list has grown. Thanks for signing on. I reveiw biographical novels about audacious women from the past and explore the facts behind the fiction. As a subscriber, you can expect no more than two posts about books and writing books in your mailbox. Today, we’re talking about art in novels. During the five years I’ve been writing Herstory Revisited, one thing has stood out to me. Readers love histor
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