Hannah Hulme Hunter
Writer of literary historical fiction set in the Great War (First World War). Revising my first book, writing the next, seeking representation. Mountaineer, gardener, traveller, off-road runner. Africa, modern history, coffee, roses, and unrealistic romance. NHS midwife in a former life.
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Chronicle of Youth
Posted in Inspiration, Research
Tagged characters, England, Great War, non-fiction, nurses & nursing, romance, social history, women, WW1 or FWW
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The Forbidden Zone
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Tagged Great War, nurses & nursing, poets, women, writing techniques
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Devotion to duty
View this post on Instagram It wasn’t all dancing for Canadian #nurses serving in France in #WW1. Along with their British and US counterparts these women suffered serious injury and death whilst caring for the wounded of all nationalities. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Great War, history, nurses & nursing, women, WW1 or FWW
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Dancing on active service shock
View this post on Instagram It’s not fair! Canadian nurses serving in France during #WW1 #GreatWar were allowed to dance! With men! (Well, fellow officers anyway…) This was Strictly Forbidden for British nurses. Extract from 1919 Report of the Work … Continue reading
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Tagged characters, Great War, history, nurses & nursing, women, WW1 or FWW
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Excitable with peculiar mannerisms…
View this post on Instagram Another afternoon in the #NationalArchives, this time browsing references written by matrons for nurses wishing serve in France in the #GreatWar #FirstWorldWar #WW1 with Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps #QARANC. The women are all … Continue reading
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Tagged characters, Great War, history, nurses & nursing, social history, women, WW1 or FWW
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The Incurable Romantic (research review)
View this post on Instagram The Incurable Romantic by Frank Tallis (2018) is compulsive background reading for a writer of #historicalromance. Falling in love is “a combustable state that reproduces the symptoms of psychiatric illness” and, when love goes wrong, … Continue reading
Aftermath of war
View this post on Instagram This is Road at St Paul (1922) by French artist Félix Vallotton. It features in @tate excellent exhibition #WW1Aftermath. A while ago I wrote (on my blog) about the inspiration I get from my various … Continue reading
The Joy of Writing Sex (research review)
View this post on Instagram I read The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers by Elizabeth Benedict (revised edition 2001) on Kindle, which may accounts for the boring cover image. Sorry about that – and apologies also … Continue reading
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Tagged characters, plot, romance, style, women, writing problems, writing techniques
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Worthless Men (reading-as-a-writer 10)
View this post on Instagram Why do I bother writing when the world already contains books like Worthless Men by Andrew Cowan (2013)? Set in an English market town in post-Somme 1916, the action spans no more than a couple … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th century, England, historical fiction, history, shell-shock, social history, soldiers, war, women
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Testament of Mary (reading-as-a-writer 9)
View this post on Instagram I had to read Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin (2012) twice; the first time to get to the end of a gripping story, the second time to read the words. In between sittings, I … Continue reading
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Tagged fiction, historical fiction, point of view, readers, style, women, writers
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