Historical Novels

Put the Story in History

William Dietrich | Posted 08.29.2011

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William Dietrich

Why not use more historical fiction to hook kids on history? Make our astonishing past a life habit, not a skills exam forgotten hours after it's taken.

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Author Stephanie Cowell Chats About Claude and Camille and Her Next Historical Novel

Susan Dormady Eisenberg | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Madeleine L'Engle, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Claude Monet, Historical Novels, Books News
Susan Dormady Eisenberg

Stephanie Cowell writes lush and compelling fictional portraits of the world's greatest artists, writers, and composers: their struggles, their liaisons, their failures and successes.

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What Women Publish: How Miss Pettigrew Came to Live Another Day

Chauncey Zalkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women, London Bookstores, Female Authors, Out of Print, Design, Bookstore, Entrepreneurs, Prints, London, Female-Run Businesses, Nicola Beauman, Publishing, Period Piece, Persephone Books, Historical Novels, Female-Authors, Books News
Chauncey Zalkin

Here are outtakes from my conversation with the smart and funny-as-hell woman who started and runs Persephone Books. Without her, Miss Pettigrew would literally not have lived to see another day.

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