Boring. My apologies if this is one of your faves. I had to stop reading it. I couldn't stand it anymore. Alexander Hamilton is a much more interesting subject than Eliza. I'll read about him instead.
I don't know what more I can say about this book. Unfortunately poignant is the best way I can think of to describe it. We love to think about how far society has come since the beginning of the French Revolution in 1786. The sad reality is we haven't. I found myself relating to these women on so ...
What is Ribbons of Scarlet about? It is about empowering women. From royalty to fruit sellers the reader learns about six different women with different lives with the same goal. It is the eighteenth century where women have no place in politics, but these women put themselves right in the middle of...
The French Revolution was a time of immense change, violence and uncertainty for everyone in the country. The women of France eagerly became caught up in the Revolution hoping for change, for rights and for freedom. Many of these women died for their part in the revolution and their beliefs that w...
Eliza Schuyler Hamilton was the woman behind Alexander Hamilton, one of the founders of America. Always strong in her own right, Eliza grew up the daughter of a general and helping in the field hospitals. Eliza often accompanied her father while he met with the Haudenosaunee tribes and other influ...
Stephanie Dray writes Historical fiction, most recently with Laura Kamoie, but she's also well known as an Historical romance author under the name of Stephanie Draven. Just to confuse matters even more, Laura Kamoie also has an alias as a Romance author, as Laura Kaye. So it's little wonder that th...
As Thomas Jefferson's oldest daughter, Patsy Jefferson grows up in awe of her father and his political strides. Patsy follows him to Paris where Thomas Jefferson becomes the American Minister to France. In Paris, Patsy not only goes to Court and receives a worldly education, but gets to see the ef...