by Stephanie Dray | Feb 16, 2021 | Bloopers, The Women of Chateau Lafayette
In my author’s note for The Women of Chateau Lafayette I wrote that at the New York Historical Society, in a box of Beatrice Chanler’s papers, I found unaddressed love letters tucked into a Valentine folder with a note that identified them as being from...
by Stephanie Dray | Oct 5, 2020 | Beatrice Chanler, Heroines, My Works, News, Research, The Women of Chateau Lafayette
While writing The Women of Chateau Lafayette, the research kept shifting under my feet, in part due to what I discovered in Beatrice’s private letters, provided to me by her grandson William A. Chanler, partly due to what I found in her papers at the New York...
by Stephanie Dray | Oct 5, 2020 | Beatrice Chanler, For Readers, My Works, News, Research, The Women of Chateau Lafayette
Those of you who have read The Women of Chateau Lafayette will know why I’m so interested in the world of the stage of the late 19th and early 20th century. For everyone else it will be a spoiler, so let me just say that a fabulous reader who has requested to...
by Stephanie Dray | Jul 14, 2020 | Miscellany
Happy Bastille Day!! At long last, I get to pull back the curtain. Drumroll… This novel, which is, in part, about America’s Favorite Fighting Frenchman, is what I’ve been working on for the past two years. Here is the cover, in all her glory, for The...
by Stephanie Dray | Feb 7, 2020 | For Readers, If the Hat Fits, My Works, Research, The Women of Chateau Lafayette
I had the great fortune to visit Chavaniac in the autumn of...
