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I don't think any character in any book has made me want to slap them as much as Madame Bovary. Other books on a similar theme? Just google "literary Adultery"

post: 237203, member: 7422"]Which poem/poems left a permanent impression on you? 'Daffodils' By William Wordsworth 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 'The Highwayman' by Alfred Noyes 'Lochinvar' by Sir Walter Scott 'Kripon'(Miser) by Rabindranath Tagore Auden "Refugee...

He was NOT a "relatively poor English guy". His father was an Alderman (a municipal official of some standing and a successful glove maker (gloves being very expensive were mainly the prerogative of the rich) and his mother was the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer so he in no means came...

Of course women were "allowed to write" in the sixteenth century. We are talking about an era when women of certain classes were very well educated. Among other attributes a good education was an advantage in the marriage stakes for any girl

For goodness sake! "Shakespeare in Love" is Hollywood fiction. It is not, neither does it's writers claim it to be, an primary (or even secondary!) historical source.

This nonsense has been done to death elsewhere by specialists in the field. Shakespeare's wife as author is one of the more lunatic theories.

If she posts in "Historical Fiction" she must expect to get recommendations about historical novels.

I'm English, I'm a retired teacher of History and English and I read widely. Most recently, I read "The Provincial Lady in London", a sequel to "Diary of a Provincial Lady" by EM Delafield. It's a comical semi-autobiographical account of the heroine's adventures in London whence she goes to...

I have absolutely no idea what "Ash" is but if you like well-researched and well written historical novels try Georgette Heyer's "Lord John". The book concerns John of Lancaster, the son of King Henry IV and the favourite brother of King Henry V (of England). This book chronicles his life from...