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Author Interview | Ellen Horan, author of 31 Bond Street
31 Bond Street tells the real-life story of a murder mystery that scandalized the nation and the presses as a sensational trial played out, while an entire country looked on in wonder. Exciting as the events of this novel are, at the backbone of 31 Bond Street is a smart, insightful, upstairs/downstairs look at antebellum life in New… Continue reading...
Posted in 19th Century, America, Author Interviews, Ellen Horan, Historical Mystery
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Alcott and March | A Guest Post by Harriet Reisen + Giveaway
Gentle Readers:
Asked to compare Louisa May Alcott’s fictional sisters to her real four, I find that they are inextricable in my mind, as I suspect they were in Louisa’s. That she found it impossible to write of Amy March after the death of May Alcott suggests that to me. I find the beginning of Jo’s Boys almost unbearably touching for its image of Amy March in heaven… Continue reading...
Posted in 19th Century, America, Giveaways, Guest Post, Louisa May Alcott
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Harrowing Historical Field Trip: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Today wraps up Harrowing Historicals: A Month-Long Celebration of All Hallows Eve, however, Nicole and I have decided to keep Harrowing Historicals going throughout the year! It was a fun challenge tracking down a variety of historical fiction (mixed with a bit of nonfiction) Halloween reads, and there are so many more to highlight in addition to those discussed… Continue reading...
Harrowing Historicals: Jane-Emily by Patricia Clapp | A Guest Review by Amy from My Friend Amy
When Nicole asked me to write a guest review for Harrowing Historicals, I immediately put a call out on Twitter for suggestions of YA or Middle Grade books that fit the description (horror stories that take place before 1960). I got quite a variety of responses and added quite a few books to my TBR pile. One suggestion was Jane-Emily by Patricia Clapp and when I spotted it… Continue reading...
Posted in 20th Century, America, Guest Post, Harrowing Historicals
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Harrowing Historicals: Review | Captivity by Deborah Noyes
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Release Date: June 1st, 2010
Source: I received a review copy from the publisher.
Captivity shines a light on the thrilling experiences of Maggie and Kate Fox, two young sisters living in upstate New York… Continue reading...
Posted in 19th Century, America, Book Reviews, Deborah Noyes, England, Harrowing Historicals, Paranormal
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On Writing Sun Going Down and Come Again No More | A Guest Post by Jack Todd, PLUS Giveaway
Nearly 150 years ago, Stephen Foster sat down and wrote a song about the unfortunates outside his cottage door. It was called Hard Times Come Again No More, and it was written during one of those times when the American Dream, for reasons no one fully understands, takes a four-story header into an empty swimming pool.
The mournful tune, written in 1855, became one of the… Continue reading...
Posted in 19th Century, America, Giveaways, Guest Post, Jack Todd
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Boardwalk Empire premieres tonight!
Tonight at 9PM EST premieres Boardwalk Empire – a new HBO drama set in the 1920s at the height of the Jazz age, written by Terence Winter (the Emmy Award-winning writer of The Sopranos) and directed by Academy Award-winner Martin Scorsese. Boardwalk Empire takes place in Atlantic City at the dawn… Continue reading...
Posted in 20th Century, America, Hist-Fic Flicks, Prohibition
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Author Event | Lauren Belfer
A little while ago I attended a reading of A Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer. The novel takes place in the United States and opens just after Pearl Harbor has occurred. The story explores how penicillin and other antibiotics were developed and how they changed peoples’ lives. Prior to antibiotics, people died of the… Continue reading...
Posted in 20th Century, America, Author Events, Lauren Belfer, Science, WWII
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Giveaway & Guest Post by Kaki Warner, author of Pieces of Sky
Please welcome Kaki Warner to Hist-Fic Chick today for a guest post and a giveaway (see details below) of her debut book, Pieces of Sky. Kaki Warner is the award-winning author of the BLOOD ROSE TRILOGY (Berkley Trade; Pieces of Sky, January 2010; Open Country, June 2010; Chasing the Wind, 2011), a historical series about the unpredictable West and the men and women who brought… Continue reading...
Posted in 19th Century, America, Giveaways, Guest Post, Kaki Warner
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Giveaway with THREE Winners: Prima Donna: A Novel by Megan Chance
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Prima Donna: A Novelby Megan ChanceSynopsis: “From the author of The Spiritualist comes another addictively readable historical novel with a twist of dark mystery.In the glittering world of nineteenth century opera, Sabine Conrad is a beloved star feted by New York’s high society, showered with adulation from her audiences, and courted by wealthy patrons. Ensnared by a man who both loves… Continue reading...
Posted in 19th Century, America, Giveaways, Historical Mystery, Megan Chance
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