An interesting article from author Carolyn Hughes on the challenges of portraying the “strangeness” of a different era whilst engaging modern readers.
If I were to portray my hero as an authentic early 20th century man he would probably be unacceptably racist, sexist, violent and generally narrow-minded by today’s norms. On the other hand, he would still be tall with dark eyes and a wolfish smile that changes lives 
Author, sometime midwife, timid mountaineer, fair weather gardener, off-road runner, unrealistic romantic. Refining my first novel - a Great War epic of suffragettes and soldiers - and writing the next.
historical fiction / art writing
LOOKING INTO THE PAST ....
Gardening at Upper Green, Oxfordshire
Writers group run by Blackwell's Bookshop and The Oxford Editors
A collective of bibliophiles talking about books. Book Fox (vulpes libris): small bibliovorous mammal of overactive imagination and uncommonly large bookshop expenses. Habitat: anywhere the rustle of pages can be heard.
by Jennifer Mack
creative writing & book development
Author of Historical Fiction
Writer, gardener, TV presenter
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Thoughts of a wife, mother and historian (not necessarily in that order).
Letters home from five brothers during the First World War
Confessions of a new writer of historical fiction
Examining how the war was reported in the Derbyshire weekly The Ashbourne Telegraph
Writing, Marketing and Self-Publishing Coaching
Reader, I Wrote it
The home of the Four Nations History Network
Author of The Meonbridge Chronicles
Author of "Let the Willows Weep"
