by Carol Bradley | Jun 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
A slave ship For my current work in progress, I’ve been researching the history of the abolition of the slave trade in Britain. Thomas Clarkson, one of the prominent voices in the fight to abolish slavery, wrote a two volume account of the long struggle: History...
by Carol Bradley | Jun 28, 2021 | On Writing, Uncategorized
I didn’t discover L.M. Montgomery’s works until the 1985 miniseries by Kevin Sullivan came out, my response being: How could I have spent my whole childhood without her books?! I promptly got her books and devoured them. I also read her diaries. What a...
by Carol Bradley | Aug 19, 2020 | Light of the Candle
by Carol Bradley | Aug 19, 2020 | Biblical Fiction, Light of the Candle | 0 comments In the summer of 2007, I wrote the first draft for what became my first novel, Light of the Candle. Thirteen years ago. After it was published...
by Carol Bradley | Aug 9, 2020 | Biographical fiction, Daughter of Anne-Hoeck, Historical Fiction
Daughter of Anne-Hoeck WRITTEN BY CAROL PRATT BRADLEYREVIEW BY SUSAN MCDUFFIE Boston, 1650: Susanna Hutchison, daughter of the heretic Anne Hutchison, and the only survivor of the Indian attack that killed her mother and siblings, has been ransomed from the...
by Carol Bradley | Jul 26, 2020 | Biographical fiction, Fire of the Word, Historical Fiction, Inspirational fiction
This novel was published in 2016. During my MFA studies in 2008 I stumbled across the account of a 16th century Englishwoman. It became my thesis novel. Writing about Anne Askew was painful but I’m glad that I did. She was a woman of deep conviction who valued...
