tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post559476243179800877..comments2024-03-27T22:25:42.129-05:00Comments on Reading the Past: A Historical Novelist's Confession, an essay by P.F. ChisholmSarah Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13340312953393474963noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-90095274214287291582014-05-07T23:40:56.784-05:002014-05-07T23:40:56.784-05:00Wonderful post! I adore your Sir Robert Carey. I w...Wonderful post! I adore your Sir Robert Carey. I was sorry to lose Barnaby, but tough times and all that :) Here's my review (written quite some years ago) of <a href="http://www.historicalnovels.info/Famine-of-Horses.html" rel="nofollow">Famine of Horses</a>. So pleased that you've returned to writing these delectable mysteries.<br /><br />Yes, "Steel Bonnets" and also the fabulous "Candlemass Road". Thank you GMF. And not to forget Janni Howker's astonishingly powerful Border fairytale <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Martin-Farrell-Windmills-Janni-Howker/dp/0435124374" rel="nofollow">Martin Farrell</a>. Language to die for.<br />Annishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02367569632016734415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-60059774195466394492014-05-06T10:30:33.675-05:002014-05-06T10:30:33.675-05:00I like "splendidly vulgar." Think I'...I like "splendidly vulgar." Think I'll design my tomb to be the same.Shelleyhttp://dustbowlstory.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-11075300629420385362014-05-06T07:24:35.789-05:002014-05-06T07:24:35.789-05:00Thank you for this wonderful post. My daughter an...Thank you for this wonderful post. My daughter and I have read every one of the Robert Carey series, and eagerly await the next one. I love the humor, the intrigue, and the unique characters - esp. crazy about Sergeant Dodd.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15809165184459649536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-14982286332164551562014-05-05T14:04:05.201-05:002014-05-05T14:04:05.201-05:00George Macdonald Fraser's The Steel Bonnets --...George Macdonald Fraser's The Steel Bonnets -- I've read that! You are the only other person to ever have mentioned reading this wonderful, and very useful book, a real work of historical research.<br /><br />Your eras are not the ones in which I work (as historian); but I stumbled upon Fraser's book while researching the background of the Scotch-Irish families so important in our history, particularly in the Revolutionary era and the secession era. Without them there probably would not have been an Age of Jackson and the small d democratic populist era. Or at least not so soon. Or, maybe ... even such hatreds that created our Civil War .... :(<br /><br />Love, C.Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.com