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Join me and fellow Dickens lover for lunch and festivities on February 9. See below
Join me on February 9, as I celebrate with (and present for) the Friends of Dickens New York, a branch of the world wide Dickens Fellowship! I will be speaking about how Charles Dickens influenced both me, and my mystery-writing alter ego, Anna Maclean! For more information, go to www.friendsofdickens.org
Jeanne Mackin is the author of several historical novels: The Sweet By and By (St. Martin’s Press), based on the life of nineteenth century spiritualist Maggie Fox; Dreams of Empire (Kensington Books), a domestic comedy set in Napoleonic Egypt, The Queen’s War (St. Martin’s Press) a novel about Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Courts of Love, and The Frenchwoman (St. Martin’s Press), a romance set in revolutionary France and the Pennsylvania wilderness. Writing as Anna Maclean she is author of the Louisa May Alcott mystery trilogy (NAL). She is also the author of the Cornell Book of Herbs and Edible Flowers (Cornell University publications) and co-editor of The Norton Book of Love (W.W. Norton.)She was the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society and her journalism has won awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, in Washington, D.C. She teaches creative writing at Goddard College in Vermont, and has taught or conducted workshops in Pennsylvania, Hawaii and New York. She lives with her husband, artist and writer Steve Poleskie, in upstate New York. |
I read this novel in two sittings, eager to learn how the lives and love stories turned out...Before I realized it, I was swept up in Maggie and Helen's intersecting worlds...One of the book's many charms is how wisely it reveals the values and passions of two women from very different eras who, nonetheless, have everything in common. - Diane Ackerman, author of The Zookeeper's Wife
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