by Stephanie Dray | Dec 9, 2021 | For Readers, Frances Perkins, Research
My research for my forthcoming novel has brought me to Albany at the turn of the century and into the 1910s. It was apparently a rather squalid place, and Frances wasn’t much impressed by the condition of the state capitol building, which was stained with cigar...
by Stephanie Dray | Apr 9, 2021 | Fun Stuff, Research, The Women of Chateau Lafayette
I give up all the goods in this article here on Literary Hub. And here are a few pictures of the things I describe. The plaque about the Baron de la Grange Marianne, or Lady Liberty, all decked out in red white and blue Me about to discover a delicious buttery crepe...
by Stephanie Dray | Mar 15, 2021 | Adrienne Lafayette, Articles, Beatrice Chanler, Research, The Women of Chateau Lafayette
The Marquis de Lafayette was not only instrumental in helping the United States to win independence; his memory also played a role in America embracing her destiny as a world power. On July 4, 1917, General Pershing and his staff visited Lafayette’s tomb at...
by Stephanie Dray | Mar 13, 2021 | Research, The Women of Chateau Lafayette
One of the inspirations behind The Women of Chateau Lafayette, was a touching memoir by a Holocaust survivor by the name of Gisele Feldman, who was one of the Hidden Children of the Holocaust. Her memoir is entitled Saved by the Spirit of Lafayette and it served as an...
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...
