Author Interview: Logan Steiner (After Anne)

In this episode, I’m joined by author Logan Steiner to discuss her new novel After Anne. After Anne is a historical fiction novel that explores the life of Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of the Anne of Green Gables series.

Learn more about Logan and After Anne at logansteiner.com

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Author Interview: Debra Magpie Earling (The Lost Journals of Sacajewea)

I’m joined for an incredibly interesting conversation with author Debra Magpie Earling, author of the new historical fiction novel The Lost Journals of Sacajewea.

Among the most memorialized women in American history, Sacajewea served as interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery. In this visionary novel, acclaimed Indigenous author Debra Magpie Earling brings this mythologized figure vividly to life, casting unsparing light on the men who brutalized her and recentering Sacajewea as the arbiter of her own history.

Learn more about Debra and her book here!

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Author Interview: Jane Draycott (Cleopatra’s Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen)

Everyone knows the name Cleopatra, but her daughter Cleopatra Selene is little-known these days. Jane Draycott has written the first modern biography of one of the most influential yet long-neglected rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene!.

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Author Interview: Celia Bell (The Disenchantment)

Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d’Aulnoy, aka Countess d’Aulnoy, aka Madame d’Aulnoy, was a French author who invented the term “fairy tales”. She also was one of many real-life figures who inspired Celia Bell to write her historical fiction novel, THE DISENCHANTMENT.

Celia joins us to talk about her book, which is a fictional story about a passionate love affair between two noblewomen who wish to free themselves from their repressive society, whatever the cost. There’s also murder in it, as well as Vulgar History fav La Voisin and, The Affair of the Poisons!

Learn more about Celia and her book here

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Author Interview: Elizabeth Chadwick (The King’s Jewel)

Nesta, or Nest ferch Rhys, was a Welsh princess in the late 11th and early 12th century. Her father was the last King of Wales, and Nesta was taken to England where she became mistress of the future Henry II. 

Her story is so fascinating and deserves to be better known, which is why it’s so great bestselling historical fiction author Elizabeth Chadwick has written a new book about her! Elizabeth joins me to share the story of Nesta and talk about her latest book, THE KING’S JEWEL.

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Queen Charlotte and Race (with Dr. Brooke Newman and Stacey Murrell)

The new Netflix series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story adapts the real-life story of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, presenting her as a Black woman living in 18th-century England. There have long been rumours about Charlotte’s real-life Black ancestry. To understand this complex situation, I sat down with two experts to learn more.

** Content warning: at around 1:33:25, the derogatory racial term “mulatto” is used twice, in a historical context. **

Stacey Morrell is a Ph.D. candidate at Brown University. Stacey works on the western Mediterranean throughout much of the Middle Ages (c.900-1520), with a particular emphasis on the relationship(s) between gender, sexuality, and power. 

Learn more about Stacey Murrell and her work

YouTube video of Stacey’s presentation on Madragana (her part is from 1:00:15 to 1:26:46)

Follow Stacey on Twitter @theamyrlinseat

Dr. Brooke Newman is an Associate Professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a historian of early modern Britain and the British Atlantic, with a current special interest in the history of slavery, the abolition movement, and the British royal family.

Learn more about Dr. Newman and her work

Follow Dr. Newman on Twitter @DrBrookeNewman

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