In this sensational sequel to The Woman In White, Marian uses all the wits and wiles she learned then to save her husband Theo Camlet from charges of bigamy and then murder. Women are supposed to be rescued in her world, but Marian fights to rescue everything she loves: her husband and her happiness.
Continue readingIn my own particular mental map of the modern novel’s river, the watershed is Jane Austen. Her books were romantic, but she was not writing romance as it later came to be understood. Romance in the early sense could be … Continue reading
These days there has been a lot of talk about daring narrative voices and experimental playing with fiction and truth (as in real life experience, to skirt around the gigantic elephant of what constitutes “truth”), and it’s great that more … Continue reading
by Phyllis Irene Radford Much of the Magna Carta has been called an economic peace treaty between King John and his barons. The following clauses address some of these issues. For the entire document of the Magna Carta, you … Continue reading
by Phyllis Irene Radford This episode deals with loose threads and nit picking. But they are issues that crop up frequently today. Now we come to what we would call infrastructure, roads and bridges and such. These vital improvements keep … Continue reading
By Phyllis Irene Radford One of the things about King John that is often overlooked, or shoved aside because it does not blacken his name, is that he was a dedicated and learned judge. He set the precedent of having … Continue reading
I love historical fiction, reading it and writing it. (See my bookstore page for two novels set in the 20th century.) Historicals can safely be fat books; I mean the grounding necessary in any novel where the world needs to … Continue reading
Blogging the Magna Carta #7 In today’s world the people of Western Europe and North America treasure their elected governments. We rely upon them to act for us since we are far too numerous for every citizen to gather and … Continue reading
By Phyllis Irene Radford As always in this series you can find the full document of the Magna Carta here: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/magnacarta.asp For a more scholarly discussion of how the Magna Carta deals with modern life: http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/magna-carta.htm Last week we dealt … Continue reading
by Phyllis Irene Radford Presuming you’ve all had a chance to check out Guardian of the Trust Merlin’s Descendants #2 http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/MD2-Guardian-of-the-Trust-by-Irene-Radford on sale at Book View Cafe and have seen how I tried to incorporate the Magna Carta into the … Continue reading
