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History Girls: The Lost Tomb: Etruscan a la Baroque

December 7, 2020 By Elisabeth Storrs Leave a Comment

History Girls: The Lost Tomb: Etruscan a la Baroque

My recent post on the History Girls blog features the story behind a lost Etruscan tomb and a Scottish Jacobite artist, James Byres in The Lost Tomb: Etruscan a la Baroque.

Filed Under: Blog, News & Events, Triclinium Tagged With: Etruscans, Guest Posts, History Girls

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History Girls: Son et Lumiere of Ancient Portents

December 23, 2019 By Elisabeth Storrs Leave a Comment

History Girls: Son et Lumiere of Ancient Portents

My recent post on the History Girls explores the power of sound and light when interpreting portents from lightning bolts in Son et Lumiere – Ancient Portents. The Etruscans were expert. Read more

Filed Under: Blog, News & Events, Triclinium Tagged With: Ancient Rome, Etruscans, Guest Posts, History, History Girls

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History Girls: The Quandary of What to Wear

December 23, 2019 By Elisabeth Storrs Leave a Comment

History Girls: The Quandary of What to Wear

What to wear? An age old question. In my post on the History Girls, I examine The Quandary of What to Wear when it comes to clothing a prostitute, concubine and noblewoman. Read more

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Incomparable Power: Hittite Queens by Judith Starkston

November 5, 2019 By Elisabeth Storrs 2 Comments

Incomparable Power: Hittite Queens by Judith Starkston

My guest today is award-winning author Judith Starkston, a classicist who feeds her obsession with the Bronze Age world of the Greeks and Hittites by writing historical fiction and fantasy. Her first novel, set in the Trojan War and told from the perspective of the captive woman Briseis, is titled Hand of Fire. She has just released the second book… read more

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Call to Juno has been featured on Wiki.ezvid

September 24, 2019 By Elisabeth Storrs Leave a Comment

Call to Juno has been featured on Wiki.ezvid

A nice surprise for me! I was contacted by Wiki.Ezvid to say they have featured Call to Juno as one of 12 Dashing Historical Romances with Old World Charm. Delighted to be included among other novels with stories spanning Regency England to Etruria and Rome. You can learn more about Wiki.Ezvid here.

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Guest post: Women Writers, Women’s Books

July 8, 2019 By Elisabeth Storrs Leave a Comment

Guest post: Women Writers, Women’s Books

Many thanks to Women Writers, Women’s Books for inviting me to write a guest post on Inspiration and Obsession for the blog. Inspiration ignites the spark to imagine a novel; obsession fans the flames to fuel the journey to complete it.

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The History Girls: Ancient ‘Girl Power’

June 24, 2019 By Elisabeth Storrs Leave a Comment

The History Girls: Ancient ‘Girl Power’

My recent post on The History Girls deals with Ancient ‘Girl Power’ that dates back millenia. Compare the influence and eminence of Etruscan women to their Roman and Greek sisters. Read more…

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The History Girls: Labyrinths and initiations

May 24, 2019 By Elisabeth Storrs Leave a Comment

The History Girls: Labyrinths and initiations

My latest post on the History Girls delves into labyrinths and the secrets behind them. A millenia old construction that has been used for initiations and as a pathway to divine communion. Read more

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History Girls: The Elusive Search for Dionysus

April 23, 2019 By Elisabeth Storrs Leave a Comment

History Girls: The Elusive Search for Dionysus

A common problem with authors who write novels set in pre-history is trying to deal with the ‘elasticity’ of sources from civilisations without extant written records. My latest post on History Girls is about my elusive search for the Etruscan Dionysus, and reaching across the ether to historians to help me.

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A Sweet and Bitter Time by GS Johnston

March 3, 2019 By Elisabeth Storrs 9 Comments

A Sweet and Bitter Time by GS Johnston

My guest today is Australian author, GS Johnston, author of The Skin of Water and The Cast of a Hand and Consumption, noted for their complex characters and well-researched settings. His new release is Sweet Bitter Cane, a beautifully rendered novel exploring an Italian woman’s hopeful emigration to an exotic but rigorous life in the Australian cane fields that leads to… read more

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