by Stephanie Dray | Feb 7, 2020 | For Readers, If the Hat Fits, My Works, Research, The Women of Chateau Lafayette
I had the great fortune to visit Chavaniac in the autumn of...
by Stephanie Dray | Feb 7, 2017 | American Revolution, Eliza, For Readers, Research
I’ll be putting quotes here from one Founding Father about the other. These particular ones are written after Hamilton’s untimely death in 1804 at the hands of Vice President Aaron Burr. On Hamilton’s Honor and Integrity “Of Mr. Hamilton I...
by Stephanie Dray | Mar 11, 2015 | America's First Daughter, American Revolution, My Works, Research
Research While we included a partial list of our sources in the acknowledgments of America’s First Daughter, we couldn’t include everything. If you’re looking to learn more about Martha Patsy Jefferson Randolph, her father, their family, their friends and their...
by Stephanie Dray | Mar 17, 2014 | America's First Daughter, For Readers, Fun Stuff, Historical Fiction Genre, Research
Laura Kamoie and I get a lot of questions about the basis of William Short’s character in America’s First Daughter. The wonderful Megan Brett did me and my co-author a solid last weekend and went to UVA to help us find a letter in which one of Patsy...
by Stephanie Dray | Jan 24, 2012 | Daughters of the Nile, Lily of the Nile, Research, Song of the Nile
In ancient history powerful women got a bad rap. This was especially the case for Rome’s first empress, Livia Drusilla, the wife of Augustus Caesar. She comes down to us as a sort of wicked step-monster of the Julio-Claudian family–one who murders, manipulates...
by Stephanie Dray | Jan 10, 2012 | Articles, Fun Stuff, Research, Song of the Nile
The heroine of my novels, Cleopatra Selene, is the daughter of the much more famous Cleopatra VII of Egypt, the notorious Queen of the Nile who is best known for having committed suicide by way of clutching a venomous serpent to her breast. There is some debate...
