by Carol Bradley | Oct 17, 2023 | Austen-inspired fiction, Historical Fiction, Jane Austen, Jane Austen Fan Fiction, On Writing, Sense and Sensibility, The Making of Margaret Dashwood
Readers are wanting more of Margaret Dashwood’s story, After some fun research, I’ve mapped out the plot of a sequel to The Making of Margaret Dashwood. Who will she meet, besides the Wilberforce’s, of course. Why, the abolitionist Thomas Clarkson,...
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...
by Carol Bradley | May 21, 2020 | Biographical fiction, Daughter of Anne-Hoeck, Historical Fiction
Thanks to friend and author Ora Smith, for this interview on her blog, Writing About Ancestors. Best wishes on publishing your fine novel about John Lotthropp. Link
by Carol Bradley | Apr 9, 2020 | Biographical fiction, Daughter of Anne-Hoeck, Historical Fiction, On Writing
In the afterword of “Daughter of Anne-Hoeck,” I reflected on what I learned from studying the unusual life of Susanna Hutchinson. It seems particularly applicable to the time in which I find my own self living. It is too easy to feel the angst over...
by Carol Bradley | Jan 29, 2020 | Biblical Fiction, Historical Fiction, Inspirational fiction, On Writing
Last week I went searching in the university library for some of the old classics that I read and loved in my teen years. The small mining town I grew up in didn’t have much culture, but it did have a good library that offered me incredible hours of escape into...
