Tag: American Historical Fiction

  • REVIEW of The Lacemaker, by Laura Frantz

    REVIEW of The Lacemaker, by Laura Frantz

    When Elizabeth Lawson’s father, Lord Stirling, flees his position in Williamsburg, she is left behind with a ransacked home, no friends, and a faithless fiance who wants nothing more than to distance himself from the unpopular Tories. Her fiance’s cousin, Noble Rynallt, is made of truer stuff, however, and he gives Elizabeth shelter until she…

  • REVIEW of The House of Closed Doors, by Jane Steen

    REVIEW of The House of Closed Doors, by Jane Steen

    By chance, the two historical novels I read this week were set within a decade of each other. They also proved an interesting contrast to each other, with one being a dyed-in-the-wool Christian romance, while the other gave merely a few pivotal references to an Almighty hand at work in the story. I think you…

  • REVIEW of The Mistress of Tall Acre, by Laura Frantz

    REVIEW of The Mistress of Tall Acre, by Laura Frantz

    In The Mistress of Tall Acre, Laura Frantz explores the time period directly following the American Revolution. What is life like for a young woman whose family was on “the wrong side”of the war, a heroine left friendless in the new United States with her home under threat of confiscation? Sophie Menzies is an endearing…