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Musings on the Historical Novel and life as it happens...

Sunday, 26 February 2012

The Mystery of Buildings in the Eleventh Century

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The Handfasted Wife is my historical fiction in progress. It is about Edith Swanneck, the handfasted wife of Harold Godwin. In this novel lo...
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Sunday, 19 February 2012

Winter In Amsterdam

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Two weekends ago, Amsterdam, a most sophisticated European city, halted as snow fell and the canals froze over. On Friday all was hushed, t...
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Sunday, 29 January 2012

An Eye for Fashion, Photography by Norman Parkinson 1954-1964

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Last weekend I took a stroll into the past. I was delighted to receive an invitation from our friend Angela Williams to attend the launch of...
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Sunday, 22 January 2012

The Memsahib of Ooty, A Passage to Kerala, part 2.

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E.M Foster's Passage to India is not simply about the domination of the Raj, it is, more importantly, about human relationships. When Fo...
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Carol McGrath
Writer of historical fiction, postgraduate research student at Royal Holloway University, London. I have an Mphil from University of London in English and Creative Writing and an MA in creative writing from The Seamus Heaney Centre QUB. My first degree is in English and Slavonic Studies from QUB. The Handfasted Wife my debut novel, first in a trilogy set in early medieval England is published by Accent Press 2013.
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