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Bostonduchess
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Joined: February 2017
Currently reading: The Duchess
Interest in HF: Growing up in historic New England town, close to Boston and sea coast
Favourite HF book: The Physick Book of Deliverence Dane
Preferred HF: Eighteenth century, fantasy
Location: Portsmouth, Nh

Hello!

Post by Bostonduchess » Tue February 14th, 2017, 2:38 pm

New here! I am from Boston, and am a registered nurse. I love singing karaoke, musical theatre and cooking. Am an avid lover of all things colonial American and the Revolutionary War. Any suggestions on books would be greatly appreciated!

My all time favorite novel, though not technically HF is The Mists of Avalong by Marion Zimmer Bradley

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MLE (Emily Cotton)
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Joined: August 2008
Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
Location: California Bay Area

Re: Hello!

Post by MLE (Emily Cotton) » Tue February 14th, 2017, 4:10 pm

Hi Bostonduchess, and welcome to the forum! :D

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Madeleine
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Joined: August 2008
Currently reading: "Mania" by L J Ross
Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
Location: Essex/London

Re: Hello!

Post by Madeleine » Tue February 14th, 2017, 7:36 pm

Hi and welcome.
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross

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Vanessa
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Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
Preferred HF: Any
Location: North Yorkshire, UK

Re: Hello!

Post by Vanessa » Tue February 14th, 2017, 9:45 pm

Welcome, Bostonduchess! Hope you enjoy it here.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads

Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind

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Misfit
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Location: Seattle, WA

Re: Hello!

Post by Misfit » Tue February 14th, 2017, 10:46 pm

Hi and welcome. I might have some colonial suggestions where I get to the desktop.
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be

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Misfit
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Re: Hello!

Post by Misfit » Wed February 15th, 2017, 12:19 am

Having trouble finding a colonial America topic and I'm on the run. Some suggestions:

Eugenia Price has written several series set in colonial America. https://www.goodreads.com/series/list?i ... enia_Price. Note, she's not preachy, but I would mark the ones that I have read as Christian Fiction.

Deepwater by Pamela Jekel.

The Carolina Chronicles by Ingles Fletcher. I've only read the first one and it was very good. Don't let any racey covers fool you, no bodices were ripped. https://www.goodreads.com/series/44476- ... ical-order

Celeste de Blasis has a great trilogy that begins in colonial era and finishes up turn of the 20C IIRC. There are some strong romantic elements, so if that's not your cuppa, pass these by. https://www.goodreads.com/series/65719- ... an-trilogy

https://www.goodreads.com/series/58238-de-kuypers. Old New York. I've only read the first one and I hear the latter books peter out, but worth the time to read book #1.

Sorry to go OT, but if I didn't list these I would forget. Let me know if we have a Colonial thread or if I should start one and moderate myself :P
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be

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