by Stephanie Dray | Feb 22, 2021 | Historical Fiction Genre, My Works, News, Reviews, The Women of Chateau Lafayette
I’m so delighted with and honored by this review in the Jewish Journal. In Stephanie Dray’s ambitious historical novel, “The Women of Chateau Lafayette,” the chateau is a character unto itself… A particularly moving moment is when the daughters of a slain...
by Stephanie Dray | Feb 22, 2021 | My Works, News, The Women of Chateau Lafayette
The AARP jotted off a list of “our favorite new and soon-to-be released compelling wartime novels” and The Women of Chateau Lafayette is on the list!
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...
