The Darling Strumpet puts the reader smack in the tumultuous world of seventeenth-century London, charting Nell Gwynn's meteoric rise from the grimy slums to triumph as a beloved comic actress through the cataclysmic years of the last plague epidemic and the Great Fire of 1666 to the licentious court and the arms of the king. Gillian Bagwell's richly detailed historical novels bring to vivid life England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. "Don't you just love it when you find a new favourite author!!!!" "Bagwell may be one of the newer writers in the historical fiction genre, but she is one of the most talented!" "The History of Gingerbread" and "Doggett's Coat and Badge: the World's Oldest Rowing Race" in this compilation of essays by more than fifty authors of historical fiction on real-life stories and tantalizing tidbits discovered while doing research for their own historical novels. 1660: Historical Fiction Connection (Website currently inactive) II, the reopening of the playhouses that had been closed forĮighteen years under Cromwell, and the first appearance of an Gillian's articles on the months from May 1660 to January 1661, toĬommemorate the 350th anniversary of the Restoration of Charles “Bess of Hardwick's Third Husband, Sir William St. “Bess of Hardwick and the Tragedy of Jane Grey” “Tudor Jousting Tournaments: Pageantry, Excitement, and Danger” “A Willow, Not an Oak: Bess of Hardwick and Religion” “The Tudor Housewife's Remedies for Pregnancy and Motherhood”
“Christmas Recipes from Tudor and Stuart England” “The Power of Marrying Well and Widowhood” “My Writing Process: Making History into Fiction” “The Next Best Thing to Being There: Recreating a Journey by Internet” “The Royal Miracle: The Flight of Charles II”
“Jane Lane: The Girl Who Saved the English Monarchy” “On My Writing Career and the Historical Novel Society” “Nell Gwynn, Popular Star of Restoration Theatre” “The Darling Strumpet's Long Path to Publication” You can also buy them through my publisher, If they don't have them in stock, they can order them! In the San Francisco Bay Area, you can buy my books at Laurel Bookstore, and have them shipped.
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