by Stephanie Dray | Mar 23, 2021 | Excerpts, For Readers, Marthe, My Works, The Women of Chateau Lafayette
Of the three women you’ll meet in The Women of Chateau Lafayette, Marthe Simone is the only fictional composite character. She was inspired by many actual women living at the chateau before and during World War II, including artist-in-residence Clara Greenleaf...
by Stephanie Dray | Oct 5, 2020 | Beatrice Chanler, Heroines, My Works, News, Research, The Women of Chateau Lafayette
While writing The Women of Chateau Lafayette, the research kept shifting under my feet, in part due to what I discovered in Beatrice’s private letters, provided to me by her grandson William A. Chanler, partly due to what I found in her papers at the New York...
by Stephanie Dray | Oct 5, 2020 | Beatrice Chanler, For Readers, My Works, News, Research, The Women of Chateau Lafayette
Those of you who have read The Women of Chateau Lafayette will know why I’m so interested in the world of the stage of the late 19th and early 20th century. For everyone else it will be a spoiler, so let me just say that a fabulous reader who has requested to...
by Stephanie Dray | Oct 10, 2017 | American Revolution, Eliza, For Readers, Heroines, My Dear Hamilton, My Works
My co-author Laura Kamoie and I had the pleasure of visiting this historic site early in our research process to get a feel for the place in which Eliza Schuyler Hamilton grew up and where she spent her early marriage. Where her family lived. And the place that was to...
by Stephanie Dray | Jul 13, 2016 | Martha Jefferson Randolph
Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph’s relationship with her father, the third president of the United States, not only defined her life but also shaped the identity of our nation. For everything we know of the author of our independence was shaped by what she let pass...
by Stephanie Dray | Jun 3, 2016 | America's First Daughter, American Revolution, Martha Jefferson Randolph, My Works, News, RevolutionEssays
Cross-posted from DrayKamoie.com Thomas Jefferson was the voice of the American Revolution, the author of the Declaration of Independence, the founder of the University of Virginia, and the third president of the United States. But he was also a man famously ruled as...
