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Rosemary Hughes |
Your sources III
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message 10 · sent:
2009-03-28 16:31
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Knowing that HenryV was almost constantly in some sort of conflict, often armed, provides possible insight as to why they had no children.
In your acknowledgments you note that your son, David, located valuable information for you in England. I doubt that I will ever have a chance to view those primary sources other than the images on your website, I would have been interested in what they were. I would have also been interested in knowing the titles of any books you found helpful in writing your book. I’m sure you used several for descriptions of daily life even if they had no direct information about Matilde. Listing primary sources and references is one way to make sure you accomplish your goal of making women more aware of the roles women have played in history.
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Dear Rosemary,
Your comments are helpful and interesting. Most readers don't care about primary sources. Also, the final edit belongs to the publisher not I, so some material isn't even considered.
As for the primary sources, they've been lost in a move by the company who misplaced the boxes. I doubt that I could ever replace the maps, books etc since my son gathered them from several old bookstores. Fortunately, the book was published before the move. Most of the books I used are in the Library of Congress, but those notes were also lost along with some antiques and the above mentioned materials. It was a blow I'll never get over.
Thanks for writing. I do remember you and the $5 in change. Haley E. Garwood
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Rosemary Hughes |
Your sources II
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message 9 · sent:
2009-03-28 16:08
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I appreciated that there was a family tree at the beginning of the book, but having only death dates limited it’s value. I looked up “Henries” in my World
Book Encyclopedia and was able to quickly add birth dates and reign dates some marriage dates from the brief entries on Henry I of England and Henry
V of Germany. Having that information allowed me to place the opening of your story within a few years. To my amateur eyes it appears that birth
dates could have been placed above death dates for at least major characters and still have the chart fit on two pages. Knowing that Matilda was 12 and Henry V was about33 when they were married helps place her
attitudes about remarriage in context. Today,I looked up more information on Wikipedia.
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Rosemary Hughes |
Your sources I
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message 8 · sent:
2009-03-28 14:28
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I talked to you at MidSouth Con. I'm the one who walked away without my $5.
I'm just starting on the Forgotten Queen. I realize that this book was your first. I noted your comment in regard to another book that you believed your audience was less oriented toward history because they were primarily readers of romance and/or fantasy and that you had no interest in writing books that had to be footnoted. I'm sure you have a better idea of current audience than I could possibly have. However, as someone who has a strong interest in history, I wanted to let you know my reaction to Forgotten Queen. I have read only the first 22 pages. Yet I have probably spent at least four hours on your topic.
What have I been doing? See next post.
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Leelu |
Welsh greeting?
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message 7 · sent:
2008-11-24 20:20
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Bore da Haley
I came across the website for your series as I was researching the name Zenobia for a novel of my own (not to worry, completely different time and place:) I took the name Zenobia from an ancestor of mine - Cornish, from Zennor, late 16th century. Its a very unusual name in our family tree, so its nice to see where the name (may have) origniated/caught the imagination of a history-buff parent.
I wanted to ask you about your greeting - cyfarchion cynnes. Welsh. Do you speak Welsh? I ask as I'm heavily invovled in the Welsh society and Welsh language classes here in Canberra, Australia - just wondered if Welsh ancestry/culture was part of your life too?
Hwyl fawr!
L
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Hi,
I've tried to answer you several times. Maybe this will get through this time. I don't speak Welsh although my grandfather on my father's side did. He never tried to teach me any of the language. We did celebrate St. David's Day, however. I plan to go to Wales eventually. Oddly enough I married into a Welsh-American family, so our children are more Welsh than most Americans. My mother's family is Scots-Irish. When I went to a hand physician about my swollen fingers (bad for typing), he laughed and said I carried a recessive gene for Welsh fingernails and fingers (they don't look Welsh to me!) and the Celtic recessive gene for something called Duputren's Contractor's, which my mother has.
So enough weird stuff, but at least I know my ancestry. Thanks for your email. Haley E. Garwood
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Solveig Jentner |
How are you?
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message 5 · sent:
2008-05-02 19:07
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Hello Ms. Garwood,
How are you? I have not been able to correspond by e-mail anymore. Please respond.
~Solveig Jentner, your biggest fan.
valhalla@mymailstation.com
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Julie |
Aethelfleda
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2008-04-17 13:56
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Hi Haley, I read your "Swords Across the Thames' a while ago and tried to find out more about the Saxons and Vikings. I found a great new book which features a much older Ethelfleda, in AD915, in a time travel adventure called Shadowers Crossing. The writer grew up near the site of Castle Rock, Ethelfleda's fortress, so must have lots of local knowledge. I would love to know what you think of this latest portrayal of the warrior queen. Best wishes, Julie 
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JM1776 |
Zenobia's Guilt?
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2007-08-20 07:03
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I appreciate that you took time to reply, Haley.
[Note that I've written a far longer response, and sent it in reply to the email I received; I thought it inappropriate to engage in what might be seen as a debate rather than a discussion on your "home turf." If you don't peruse such email, I'll be happy to post it here as an "admin only" message, with your permission, of course.]
I may understand the motivations behind your perspective, but would like to see the references to an alternative killer, if you ever have the time and inclination to dig them up. If not, I understand. We all live in this busy world, rather than Zenobia's, after all.
Zenobia's greatness, though, isn't contingent on her having been a paragon of virtue.
Best of luck on your further literary endeavors.
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Hi,
Thanks for the background. I had to choose my audience and what they would prefer. Since my biggest fans are romance readers, the second fantasy readers and most of both groups women, I made a choice. What I came away with was that the Romans feared the strength that Odainat (I think I used the Greek spelling for ease of the readers) and Zenobia (not the Greek spelling) had. I wish I could remember which historian said that, but I had over fifty references that included books and parts of books. They had, after all, trained the Roman desert troops with their own troops, and with the change of emperors, came a change of policy. It's all conjecture in the long run.
I don't think of your comments as antagonistic but from someone who loves history and is well versed in it. I, too, love history. I chose to do fiction so I wouldn't have to footnote among other tedious tasks. I save my nonfiction for other things. Thanks for writing. Your timing was good since the university where I teach won't start for a week. So long summer; hello grading essays. Haley
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Haley |
African Queens
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2007-06-28 19:08
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Dear Chadvar,
You asked about which African Queen I wanted to do a novel about.I can't decide. There are several who are fascinating.
I want to finish my Indian Joan of Arc first. Rani of Jhansi haunts me. She actually jerked me out of bed at 3 in the morning and made me start the novel. I have at least ten pages, but need to do some more research.
I lived in India for a year, so have a special feeling for this lady. Haley
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Painbearer (Chavdar) |
another question
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2007-05-28 14:29
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Mrs Hale
It's me again, thank you very much for the feedback. I noticed that you have said something about "African Queen". Well, can you tell me what it will be about? A little bit to put up there on your page. And also you didn't mention at which university are you teaching. Thank you very much, beforehand. Good luck with the teaching and the examinations  . Me myself am going through them ).
Regards: Chavdar
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