Medieval Woman: Blogging with Historical Novelist Susan Higginbotham

Since I turned in my completed manuscript on Thursday, the duchesses have released me from bondage to blog again. I've decided, however,...

We, the Duchesses of Suffolk and Northumberland, wish to inform the gracious readers of this blog that until Susan Higginbotham delivers a c...

I'm back from the Historical Novel Society's fourth North American conference, held in San Diego this weekend. As promised, here...

On Friday at dawn, I'll be heading out to San Diego for the Historical Novel Society conference this weekend. This is my first time in a...

In my last post, I mentioned that after the execution of their father, Jane Seymour and three of her sisters came to live with their aunt El...

Tudor England possessed not one but two Lady Janes who were noted for their learning, whose parents aspired to marry them to the king, and w...

Three letters by Frances Grey, Marchioness of Dorset and later Duchess of Suffolk, have been preserved in printed sources. Mary Anne Everett...