Scribbling in the margins

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

Sunday, 28 May 2017

The Tudor Way of Death

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My new novel The Woman in the Shadows opens with the death of Elizabeth Williams' husband's death. She has kept his secret for yea...
Saturday, 18 February 2017

Medieval Female Embroiderers

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Embroidery was equated with luxury in medieval society and culture. It covered religious garments and enhanced secular garments indicating ...
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Wednesday, 1 February 2017

Venice in Autumn- City of Dreams

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If New York is the city that is so good that they named it twice then what does that make Venice? The view from the Campanile of Sa...
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Sunday, 27 November 2016

Footwear in Paintings by 'Old Masters'.

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Recently, I was fortunate to have an opportunity to visit art galleries in Venice, Haarlem and in The Hague. I focussed on the costumes, ha...
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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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