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Travel Journal, 1909
The travel journal of Edith Scott was written on her European tour (June 26, 1909-Aug. 31, 1909) together with four other women chaperoned by a Miss Woodward. Aboard the White Star Line vessel for England, Edith injured her leg. She was visited by Ethel Roosevelt on the voyage. The women tour England, Italy, the Netherlands and France. Scott records visual descriptions of the landscape she passes through and reports on the people she meets and their conversations. She writes of the museums and galleries they visit. There are extended passages on her reading.
The Lamps of Albarracín
The Lamps of Albarracín gives voice to the diverse peoples of late-medieval Aragon - Jews, Muslims, Christians, conversos, and mudéjares. Those were the years leading up to the Expulsion of 1492, when the social contract that had allowed the three faiths to live together in tenuous harmony was coming apart. As an author, I was keen to explore beliefs, identities, and inter-faith friendships and conflicts. The peculiar logic of the Inquisitors and those who supported them. The shock of forced conversion to Catholicism. The dramas of resistance. Stories of ordinary people in extraordinary times.While this is a historical novel, I do not claim to capture in a single story the complexity of th...
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