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Cover Reveal!

Cover Reveal!

by Stephanie Dray | Nov 17, 2021 | For Readers, Heroines, Marthe, My Works, The Women of Chateau Lafayette

COVER REVEAL! The Women of Chateau Lafayette is coming out in paperback in March and it’s got a fabulous new spring wardrobe for the occasion. This is a picture of the real castle in the background! (The front side without the tall square tower–the castle...
Favorite Frances Perkins Quotes

Favorite Frances Perkins Quotes

by Stephanie Dray | Jul 14, 2021 | For Readers, Frances Perkins

I’ll keep this updated as I stumble over more. “The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.” “The worst they can say about me is that I’m a humanitarian and I have to admit it.” “It’s our job as women, as...
Lafayette and the Champs de Mars Violence

Lafayette and the Champs de Mars Violence

by Stephanie Dray | Jul 13, 2021 | Adrienne Lafayette, Heroines, My Works, The Women of Chateau Lafayette

This week marks a sad anniversary of the so-called Champs de Mars Massacre in Paris France, on July 17, 1791. The country was ostensibly a constitutional monarchy, but the king and the royal family had just fled Paris, only to be recognized on the road, and returned...
We All Come to the Same Night

We All Come to the Same Night

by Stephanie Dray | Jun 14, 2021 | Beatrice Chanler, My Works, The Women of Chateau Lafayette

On June 19, 1946 Beatrice Chanler passed away. She was traveling by train with French diplomat Alexis Leger, also known as Nobel prize winning poet Saint-John Perse. The two had spent summers together at her home in Islesboro, Maine since his exile from France after...
Let’s Put Lafayette On The Map!

Let’s Put Lafayette On The Map!

by Stephanie Dray | Jun 10, 2021 | American Revolution, For Readers, Fun Stuff, If the Hat Fits, The Women of Chateau Lafayette

In 1824, Lafayette made his Farewell Tour, visiting all twenty-four of the then United States. In anticipation of Independence Day I’d like to see him in all 50 states, and you can help!...
What I’m Working on Next!

What I’m Working on Next!

by Stephanie Dray | May 17, 2021 | Frances Perkins, Works in Progress

I love writing about unsung historical women, and my next subject will be Frances Perkins, the Founding Mother of 20th century America. FDR’s right hand woman, the first female cabinet secretary, and the woman whose lonely fight to save Jewish refugees from the...
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