by Stephanie Dray | Feb 16, 2021 | Bloopers, The Women of Chateau Lafayette
In my author’s note for The Women of Chateau Lafayette I wrote that at the New York Historical Society, in a box of Beatrice Chanler’s papers, I found unaddressed love letters tucked into a Valentine folder with a note that identified them as being from...
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 | 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 | Sep 5, 2019 | My Works, RIBBONS OF SCARLET
I got chills listening to it. The book is coming to life! Now you can listen too, by clicking here.
by Stephanie Dray | Aug 2, 2019 | My Works, RIBBONS OF SCARLET, Upcoming Events
Dear Readers, It’s finally time to celebrate the release of our novel, Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution’s Women, releasing October 1. We’re thrilled to be hitting the road to share the book with so many of you in person. Between...
