Digging Deep in the 17th Century feat. Deborah Swift, author of Entertaining Mr Pepys

Art In Fiction

Join me as I chat with Deborah Swift, author of four novels listed on Art In Fiction, including The Lady's Slipper and the Women of Pepys' Diaries Series, all set in England in the 17th century.
Highlights:

• Genesis of The Lady's Slipper (Visual Arts)
• Why the novel is set following the English Civil War
• Orchids in The Lady's Slipper
• Reading from The Lady's Slipper
• The Women of Samuel Pepys' Diaries series and the trilogy of novels inspired by them
• Women in 17th-century theater
• Researching the 17th century
• How to make a novel "compulsively readable"

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Music Credits
Intro: Paganology, performed by The Paul Plimley Trio; composed by Gregg Simpson
Ad: Celtic Calypso, performed by Lunar Adventures; composed by Gregg Simpson
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