Fiction_L Archives Real Historical Women in fiction Dates: 2/26/02,7:49 PM  through  3/1/02,10:03 AM  (28 postings) Search for: Select one or more indexes to search: 2011-current     2009-2010     2004-2008    1995-2003    (Matches from each index will be displayed separately in the results page.) Return to February 2002 thread menu   |   Fiction_L Archives Menu

FROM: Wendy Isom <[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us>
REC'D: 2/26/02, 7:49 PM

I am preparing a display of fiction featuring real women as characters.
I have searched the archive and found the City of Lights postings from
last January. I am also using the list featuring historical detectives.
I'm hoping for help in finding more recent titles/authors, and any
others that come to mind. I'll compile the results for the list.

As always, thank you so much!

Wendy Isom
Arlington Public Library
Arlington, Texas

FROM: "Jeffrey, Denise B" <[removed]@education.tas.gov.au>
REC'D: 2/26/02, 8:42 PM

Hope these are useful,

Gregory, Phillipa - The Other Boleyn girl
Jane Mendelsohn - I Was Amelia Earhart,
Glyn Hughes - Bronte
Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia. Victoria. 1994. Marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Tannahill, Reay - Fatal majesty : the drama of Mary, Queen of Scots
Hutson, Anne - Testimony scrolls (Mary, mother of Jesus)
Fredriksson, Marianne - According to Mary Magdalene
Hansen, Ron - Hitler's niece
Robin Maxwell - The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn


Denise

Denise Jeffrey,
Senior Librarian (Selection),
State Library of Tasmania,
91 Murray St.,
Hobart 7000

Phone 61 3 6233 7049
Fax 61 3 6233 7506
Email [removed]@education.tas.gov.au
http://www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/services/goodread.htm

-----Original Message-----
From: Wendy Isom [[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us]
Sent: Wednesday, 27 February 2002 12:39 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Real Historical Women in fiction


I am preparing a display of fiction featuring real women as characters.
I have searched the archive and found the City of Lights postings from
last January. I am also using the list featuring historical detectives.
I'm hoping for help in finding more recent titles/authors, and any
others that come to mind. I'll compile the results for the list.

As always, thank you so much!

Wendy Isom
Arlington Public Library
Arlington, Texas

FROM: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/26/02, 9:03 PM

Wendy,
Your library owns some excellent recent
reference sources that will provide hundreds of
possible books for your display:

Historical Figures in Fiction, by Donald K.
Hartman (Arlington Central Library, Adult
Reference REF 823.08016 H333h)

World historical fiction :an annotated guide to
novels for adults and young adults, by Lynda G.
Adamson (Arlington Central Library, Adult
Reference REF 808.8381 A221w)

American historical fiction :an annotated guide
to novels for adults and young adults, by Lynda
G. Adamson (Arlington Central Library, Adult
Reference REF 800.3 A221a)

What historical novel do I read next? :a reader's
guide to historical fiction, by Daniel S. Burt
(Central Library Adult Reference REF 823.08016
B973w)

All of these index real women (and men) that have
appeared as characters in fiction.

David Wright
Seattle Public Library


--- Wendy Isom <[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us>
wrote:
> I am preparing a display of fiction featuring
> real women as characters.
> I have searched the archive and found the City
> of Lights postings from
> last January. I am also using the list
> featuring historical detectives.
> I'm hoping for help in finding more recent
> titles/authors, and any
> others that come to mind. I'll compile the
> results for the list.
>
> As always, thank you so much!
>
> Wendy Isom
> Arlington Public Library
> Arlington, Texas
>
>
......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the
> archives?
> Everything Fiction_L:
http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html


=====
David Wright Seattle Public Library

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion!
http://greetings.yahoo.com

FROM: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <[removed]@mail.open.org>
REC'D: 2/26/02, 10:06 PM

I just finished the new book by Judith Freeman, RED WATER. Set just after the Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah, the story is told from the viewpoint of 3 of John Lee's 19 wives.

Robin Beerbower
Salem (OR) Public Library

>>> [removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us 02/26/02 17:38 PM >>>
I am preparing a display of fiction featuring real women as characters.
I have searched the archive and found the City of Lights postings from
last January. I am also using the list featuring historical detectives.
I'm hoping for help in finding more recent titles/authors, and any
others that come to mind. I'll compile the results for the list.

As always, thank you so much!

Wendy Isom
Arlington Public Library
Arlington, Texas

FROM: "BookBitch" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/26/02, 10:17 PM

Red Water by Judith Freeman
The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Scandalmonger by William Safire
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross

Hope this helps

Stacy Alesi
Southwest County Regional Library
Palm Beach County Library System

I am the BookBitch
www.bookbitch.com

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Wendy Isom
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 8:39 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Real Historical Women in fiction


I am preparing a display of fiction featuring real women as characters.
I have searched the archive and found the City of Lights postings from
last January. I am also using the list featuring historical detectives.
I'm hoping for help in finding more recent titles/authors, and any
others that come to mind. I'll compile the results for the list.

As always, thank you so much!

Wendy Isom
Arlington Public Library
Arlington, Texas

_________________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free [removed]@yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

FROM: Wendy Isom <[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us>
REC'D: 2/27/02, 8:47 AM

Thanks David!

I'll check them.

Wendy

-----Original Message-----
From: David Wright [[removed]@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 8:54 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Real Historical Women in fiction


Wendy,
Your library owns some excellent recent
reference sources that will provide hundreds of
possible books for your display:

Historical Figures in Fiction, by Donald K.
Hartman (Arlington Central Library, Adult
Reference REF 823.08016 H333h)

World historical fiction :an annotated guide to
novels for adults and young adults, by Lynda G.
Adamson (Arlington Central Library, Adult
Reference REF 808.8381 A221w)

American historical fiction :an annotated guide
to novels for adults and young adults, by Lynda
G. Adamson (Arlington Central Library, Adult
Reference REF 800.3 A221a)

What historical novel do I read next? :a reader's
guide to historical fiction, by Daniel S. Burt
(Central Library Adult Reference REF 823.08016
B973w)

All of these index real women (and men) that have
appeared as characters in fiction.

David Wright
Seattle Public Library


--- Wendy Isom <[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us>
wrote:
> I am preparing a display of fiction featuring
> real women as characters.
> I have searched the archive and found the City
> of Lights postings from
> last January. I am also using the list
> featuring historical detectives.
> I'm hoping for help in finding more recent
> titles/authors, and any
> others that come to mind. I'll compile the
> results for the list.
>
> As always, thank you so much!
>
> Wendy Isom
> Arlington Public Library
> Arlington, Texas
>
>
......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the
> archives?
> Everything Fiction_L:
http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html


=====
David Wright Seattle Public Library

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion!
http://greetings.yahoo.com

FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <[removed]@ci.glendale.az.us>
REC'D: 2/27/02, 9:10 AM

The first one I thought of was Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, about a house cleaner who was accused of killing her employer, I think in the late 1800s.

If I think of more, I'll let you know.

Lisa


Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ

....my views are my own....

-The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time- James Taylor

>>> [removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us 02/26/02 06:38PM >>>
I am preparing a display of fiction featuring real women as characters.
I have searched the archive and found the City of Lights postings from
last January. I am also using the list featuring historical detectives.
I'm hoping for help in finding more recent titles/authors, and any
others that come to mind. I'll compile the results for the list.

As always, thank you so much!

Wendy Isom
Arlington Public Library
Arlington, Texas

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/27/02, 10:03 AM

Two authors that spring to mind immediately are Jean Plaidy (many historical
novels, focusing on people like Lucrezia Borgia, Queen Victoria, and the
Plantagenets) and Molly Costain Haycraft (to take one example, "My Lord
Brother the Lionheart," told by Princess Joanna, sister of Richard I). Anya
Seton's "Katherine" might fit here also, as would Victoria Holt's "My Enemy
the Queen."

Margaret George, of course, has written several historicals focusing on
Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, etc.

If non-royals are wanted, there's "The Secret Annie Oakley," "A Woman Called
Moses" (Harriet Tubman), and "Miracles" (Mother Elizabeth Seton), by Marcy
Heidish.

_________________________________________________________________
Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/27/02, 10:03 AM

>From: "Jeffrey, Denise B" <[removed]@education.tas.gov.au>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: RE: Real Historical Women in fiction
>Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:30:51 +1100
>
>>Hutson, Anne - Testimony scrolls (Mary, mother of Jesus)
>

Also an oldie: Sholem Asch's "Mary."

_________________________________________________________________
Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

FROM: Jim Norman <[removed]@lib.ci.phoenix.az.us>
REC'D: 2/27/02, 10:24 AM

I have not been following this thread, but how about the book 'Mary
Reilly' by Valerie Martin, about the housekeeper for Dr Jekyll.

Thanks,

Jim

Jim Norman, Library Assistant
Special Needs Center
Phoenix Public Library
Burton Barr Central Library
1221 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona 85004-1867
(602) 261-8690 Voice
(602) 254-8205 TDD/TTY
(602) 534-4520 FAX
E-Mail: [removed]@phxlib.org

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Lisa Colcord wrote:

> The first one I thought of was Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, about a house cleaner who was accused of killing her employer, I think in the late 1800s.
>
> If I think of more, I'll let you know.
>
> Lisa
>
>
> Lisa Colcord
> Librarian
> Glendale Public library
> Glendale, AZ
>
> ....my views are my own....
>
> -The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time- James Taylor
>
> >>> [removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us 02/26/02 06:38PM >>>
> I am preparing a display of fiction featuring real women as characters.
> I have searched the archive and found the City of Lights postings from
> last January. I am also using the list featuring historical detectives.
> I'm hoping for help in finding more recent titles/authors, and any
> others that come to mind. I'll compile the results for the list.
>
> As always, thank you so much!
>
> Wendy Isom
> Arlington Public Library
> Arlington, Texas
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/27/02, 10:24 AM

>From: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <[removed]@mail.open.org>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: Real Historical Women in fiction
>Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:53:48 -0800
>
>I just finished the new book by Judith Freeman, RED WATER. Set just after
>the Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah, the story is told from the viewpoint
>of 3 of John Lee's 19 wives.
>

Speaking of Westerns, there's Jane Candia Coleman's "I, Pearl Hart." Also
"Ride the Wind," by Lucia St. Clair Robson (Cynthia Ann Parker), and various
of her other novels also. "Follow the River," by James Alxander Thom,
retells the story of an actual 18th-C. captive and her daring escape and
homeward trek, while his "The Red Heart" tells of Frances Solcum, who
preferred to stay with the Indians.

Irving Stone often focuses on a famous wife--Jessie Benton Fremont in
"Immortal Wife," Mary Todd Lincoln in "Love is Eternal," Rachel Jackson in
"The President's Lady," Abigail Adams in "Those Who Love."

_________________________________________________________________
Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <[removed]@ci.glendale.az.us>
REC'D: 2/27/02, 11:16 AM

And if you consider characters from the bible to be real (like Dinah from the Red Tent), there is also Marjorie Holmes' books, Two from Galilee and Three from Galilee.

Lisa

>>> [removed]@hotmail.com 02/27/02 09:22 AM >>>

>From: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <[removed]@mail.open.org>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: Real Historical Women in fiction
>Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:53:48 -0800
>
>I just finished the new book by Judith Freeman, RED WATER. Set just after
>the Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah, the story is told from the viewpoint
>of 3 of John Lee's 19 wives.
>

Speaking of Westerns, there's Jane Candia Coleman's "I, Pearl Hart." Also
"Ride the Wind," by Lucia St. Clair Robson (Cynthia Ann Parker), and various
of her other novels also. "Follow the River," by James Alxander Thom,
retells the story of an actual 18th-C. captive and her daring escape and
homeward trek, while his "The Red Heart" tells of Frances Solcum, who
preferred to stay with the Indians.

Irving Stone often focuses on a famous wife--Jessie Benton Fremont in
"Immortal Wife," Mary Todd Lincoln in "Love is Eternal," Rachel Jackson in
"The President's Lady," Abigail Adams in "Those Who Love."

_________________________________________________________________
Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

FROM: "Warner, Deb" <[removed]@co.durham.nc.us>
REC'D: 2/27/02, 11:38 AM

Just after I sent, I remembered a few more:
Liza Dalby's TALE OF MURASAKI, about Lady Murasaki, author of "Tale of
Genji"
Julia Alvarez IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES (I saw a poster for the
real sisters...) a movie is being/has been made of this BTW
IN THE NAME OF SALOME, about the poetess who began as
a darling of Trujillo and ended in exile

FROM: "Warner, Deb" <[removed]@co.durham.nc.us>
REC'D: 2/27/02, 11:38 AM

Two oldies but goodies: KATHERINE by Anya Seton, about Katherine Synwford,
mistress and later wife to John of Gaunt
Taylor Caldwell's THE GLORY AND THE LIGHTNING, about Aspasia, courtesan
and favorite of Pericles
Also, two mysteries series in which Elizabeth I appears:
Karen Harper's THE POYSON GARDEN & THE TIDAL POOLE, in which the lady
herself does the detecting
Fiona Buckley's TO SHEILD THE QUEEN, THE DOUBLET AFFAIR, THE QUEEN'S RANSOM,
in which one of her ladies in waitin is the investigator
Also, Mary Luke's THE IVY CROWN, about Catherine Parr, the lady lucky enough
to survive Henry VII

FROM: [removed]@lib.state.ca.us
REC'D: 2/27/02, 11:38 AM

Virginia Wolfe in Michael Cunningham's brilliant THE HOURS.

Brent

Brent Miller
Government Publications Section
654-0243

FROM: Viccy Kemp <[removed]@cityofcarrollton.com>
REC'D: 2/27/02, 11:59 AM

James Shott has written a series of novels based on Old Testament women:
Deborah
Abigail
Bathsheba
Hagar
Leah
I hope Bruce Alexander's series using Sir John Fielding (the blind brother
of Tom Fielding who wrote "Tom Jones") is in your historical mysteries list:
Blind justice
The color of death
Death of a colonial
Jack, knave, fool
Murder in Grub Street
Person or persons unknown
Smuggler's moon
Watery grave
I'm sure I'll think of more as soon as I send this.
HTH
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!

-----Original Message-----
From: Wendy Isom [[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us]
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 7:39 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Real Historical Women in fiction


I am preparing a display of fiction featuring real women as characters.
I have searched the archive and found the City of Lights postings from
last January. I am also using the list featuring historical detectives.
I'm hoping for help in finding more recent titles/authors, and any
others that come to mind. I'll compile the results for the list.

As always, thank you so much!

Wendy Isom
Arlington Public Library
Arlington, Texas

FROM: Alice Nixon <[removed]@netrax.net>
REC'D: 2/27/02, 12:19 PM

Wendy,
For a Texas angle you would want to add
Love Is a Wild Assault by Elithe Hamilton Kirkland about Harriet Potter (early
Texas pioneer).
True Women and Hill Country by Janice Woods Windle about her early ancestors in
Texas.
Alice


At 07:38 PM 02/26/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>I am preparing a display of fiction featuring real women as characters.
>I have searched the archive and found the City of Lights postings from
>last January. I am also using the list featuring historical detectives.
>I'm hoping for help in finding more recent titles/authors, and any
>others that come to mind. I'll compile the results for the list.
>
>As always, thank you so much!
>
>Wendy Isom
>Arlington Public Library
>Arlington, Texas
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

Alice Nixon
Reference Backup/ILL Services Manager
South Texas Library System
805 Comanche
Corpus Christi, Texas 78401
361.880.7086
[removed]@netrax.net

FROM: "Erica Nutzman" <[removed]@bookmen.com>
REC'D: 2/27/02, 12:19 PM

Tamar (a step-daughter of King David) and the Joan of Arc Tapestries by Ann
Chamberlin. Also the Royal Diaries series from Dear America.

Erica Nutzman
Processing Services Coordinator
The Bookmen, Inc.
(612)359-5924
[removed]@bookmen.com

FROM: "Megan Ellis" <[removed]@denver.lib.co.us>
REC'D: 2/27/02, 12:30 PM

The Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradly, about Kassandra of Troy

For younger readers there's
Mara, daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvi McGraw (young adult read
about Queen Hatshepsut)
His Majesty, Queen Hatshepsut by Dorothy Carter

Megan S.F. Ellis
Cataloging Assistant
(720) 865-1130

Denver Public Library
10 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy.
Denver, CO 80204

FROM: Jean Langlais <[removed]@linc.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/27/02, 12:52 PM

Wendy,
Try these recent novels:

When This Cruel War is Over by Thomas Fleming, which revolves around the
Civil War relationship between the fiery Sons of Liberty spy Janet Todd
(related somehow to Mary Todd Lincoln) and U.S. Major Paul Stapleton. 2001

Nowhere Else on Earth by Josephine Humphreys (2000) is another unusual
Civil War novel, and a departure for Humphreys, centering on Lumbee (North
Carolina) Indian Rhoda Strong. Fascinating story.

Also look at the Seneca Falls Mysteries by Miriam Grace Monfredo. Her most
recent, about the Virginia Peninsula Campaign, features among other
characters Elizabeth Van Lew. Various strong historical women are
portrayed in her mysteries.

Snow Mountain Passage by James D. Houston (2001) tells the story of the
Donner Party tragedy from the perspective of Patty Reid.

Here be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman is older, 1985, but a real
gem. Joanna is King John's bastard, given in marriage to Llewelyn the Great.

Robin Maxwell's series on Elizabeth I is also worth displaying. The most
recent is Virgin: Prelude to the Throne (2001)

FROM: Katherine Johnson <[removed]@epexchange.epnet.com>
REC'D: 2/27/02, 1:03 PM

In America, by Susan Sontag, is a novel starring Polish actress Maryna
Zalezowska after her emigration to the U.S.
Nowhere Else on Earth by Josephine Humphreys portrays mid-19th-Century
life in Eastern North Carolina and is based on the life of Rhoda Strong
Lowrie.

The Sharp Teeth of Love, by Doris Betts, takes a somewhat different
approach to the historical events by bringing back a member of the
Donner Party as a ghost who interacts with a 20th-century woman.

In a different fiction category, Elliott Roosevelt's mystery novels
featuring his mother Eleanor as the detective occur in the midst of
historical events during the time when FDR was president.

--
Katherine Bradley Johnson
NoveList Database Specialist
NoveList/EBSCO
[removed]@epnet.com
2634 Chapel Hill Blvd., Ste. 208
Durham, NC 27707-2830 USA
(919) 489-9412 x206 (voice)
(919) 489-7263 (fax)

Die Welt des Märchens ist die, der Welt der Wahrheit
durchaus entgegengesetzte und eben darum ihr so
durchaus ähnlich, wie das Chaos der vollendeten
Schöpfung ähnlich ist." -- NOVALIS.

FROM: "Sue Rice" <[removed]@ascpl.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/27/02, 1:45 PM

"Libby" by Judy Alter (Elizabeth Bacon Custer)
"Flying Blind: a Novel of Amelia Earhart" by Max Allen Collins
"Secret Annie Oakley" by Marcy Heidish
Elizabeth I of England mystery series by Karen Harper

And from a very odd booklist I compiled one time:
"Angel in Black" by Max Allen Collins (Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia)
"In the Time of the Poisoned Queen" by Ann Dukthas (Bloody Mary of England)
"Time of Murder at Mayerling" by Ann Dukthas (Mary Vetsera & Crown Prince
Rudolf of Austria)
"Blood Countess" by Andrei Codrescu (Elizabeth Bathory of Hungary)
"Time for the Death of a King" by Ann Dukthas (Mary, Queen of Scots)
"Lizzie" by Elizabeth Englstrom (Lizzie Borden)
"Shadow Queen" by Tony Gibbs (Mary, Queen of Scots)
"Lizzie" by Evan Hunter (Lizzie Borden)

HTH,
Olivia Brown

FROM: Thelma Stone <[removed]@fortworthlibrary.org>
REC'D: 2/27/02, 1:56 PM

The Black Rose by Tananarive Due is biographical fiction about Madam
C. J. Walker. C.C. Benison has a paperback mystery series featuring
Queen Elizabeth and her maid. Max Allan Collin's Nathan Heller series
feature real people. Flying Blind is about Amelia Earhart.

FROM: "Quillen, Christine" <[removed]@camden.lib.nj.us>
REC'D: 2/27/02, 7:38 PM

Killing Cynthia Ann by Charles Brashear
Life of Cynthia Ann Parker, the daughter of a Texas Ranger, who was captured
by a Comanche raiding party

================================================
C. L. Quillen, Librarian
South County Regional Library
35 Coopers Folly Road, Atco, NJ 08004
Phone: 856.753.2537

-----Original Message-----
From: Wendy Isom [[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us]
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 8:39 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Real Historical Women in fiction


I am preparing a display of fiction featuring real women as characters.
I have searched the archive and found the City of Lights postings from
last January. I am also using the list featuring historical detectives.
I'm hoping for help in finding more recent titles/authors, and any
others that come to mind. I'll compile the results for the list.

As always, thank you so much!

Wendy Isom
Arlington Public Library
Arlington, Texas

FROM: Leslie DeLooze <[removed]@nioga.org>
REC'D: 2/28/02, 9:12 AM

Some other titles to add to the Real Historical Women in fiction could
include Anita Diamant's THE RED TENT (the Biblical story of Dinah) and
the mystery series by Stephanie Barron about Jane Austen, starting with
JANE AND THE UNPLEASANTNESS AT SCARGRAVE MANOR.
Leslie DeLooze
Richmond Memorial Library, Batavia

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/28/02, 7:26 AM

Norah Lofts: "Esther," "Eleanor the Queen."

_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

FROM: Sandy Westbrook <[removed]@crlc.org>
REC'D: 2/28/02, 1:39 PM

There's always Elliott Roosevelt's mysteries starring his mother, Eleanor.

Sandy Westbrook
South Windsor Public Library
South Windsor, CT 06074
Ph 860-644-1541
Fax 860-644-7645
[removed]@crlc.org

At 01:30 PM 2/27/2002 +1100, you wrote:
>Hope these are useful,
>
>
>
>Gregory, Phillipa - The Other Boleyn girl
>Jane Mendelsohn - I Was Amelia Earhart,
>Glyn Hughes - Bronte
>Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia. Victoria. 1994. Marriage of Queen Victoria and
Prince Albert.
>Tannahill, Reay - Fatal majesty : the drama of Mary, Queen of Scots
>Hutson, Anne - Testimony scrolls (Mary, mother of Jesus)
>Fredriksson, Marianne - According to Mary Magdalene
>Hansen, Ron - Hitler's niece
>Robin Maxwell - The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn
>
>
>Denise
>
>Denise Jeffrey,
>Senior Librarian (Selection),
>State Library of Tasmania,
>91 Murray St.,
>Hobart 7000
>
>Phone 61 3 6233 7049
>Fax 61 3 6233 7506
>Email [removed]@education.tas.gov.au
>http://www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/services/goodread.htm
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Wendy Isom [[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us]
>Sent: Wednesday, 27 February 2002 12:39 PM
>To: Fiction_L
>Subject: Real Historical Women in fiction
>
>
>I am preparing a display of fiction featuring real women as characters.
>I have searched the archive and found the City of Lights postings from
>last January. I am also using the list featuring historical detectives.
>I'm hoping for help in finding more recent titles/authors, and any
>others that come to mind. I'll compile the results for the list.
>
>As always, thank you so much!
>
>Wendy Isom
>Arlington Public Library
>Arlington, Texas
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 3/1/02, 10:03 AM

At 09:14 AM 2/27/02 -0700, you wrote:
>
>I have not been following this thread, but how about the book 'Mary
>Reilly' by Valerie Martin, about the housekeeper for Dr Jekyll.

Since Dr. Jekyll was not real, I think we'd have to assume that his
housekeeper was not real either....

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

Return to February 2002 thread menu   |   Fiction_L Archives Menu

The Webrary® and Fiction_L are services of the Morton Grove Public Library "Webrary" is a registered trademark of the Morton Grove Public Library. All rights reserved. Copyright of Fiction_L postings belongs to their respective authors; postings may only be reused with the author's permission. Compiled lists (compilations of titles or authors from earlier postings on a particular topic) may not be reused for commercial purposes. To use a compiled list for non-commercial purposes, please credit "Subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." All other content is ©2012 Morton Grove Public Library, 6140 Lincoln Ave., Morton Grove, IL 60053-2989, (847) 965-4220.