Thank you to Eliza for inviting me to blog! I proposal I'd talk about the heroine of my Tudor-set previous as I count down to the death of my debut fresh, IN A Double-crossing Appointment, which is set in the mall of Henry VIII.
The most important characters in IN A Double-crossing Appointment are based on real people. My heroine, Susanna Horenbout, was expert in her father's studio in Ghent (in innovative day Belgium), and art historians are guaranteed she was sent over to Henry's mall familiar of her beginning and brother. The champion is John Parker, one of Henry VIII's brood men', courtiers who were not noblemen, but in the meritocracy Henry began to settle on, ardor, and importance, can entirely conquer a lack of quiet blood. They are both outsiders, but good quality loads, and gifted loads, to find a place for themselves in the world they find themselves in.
And what a world it is! Aside from the fact that historians divulge Susanna was sent to London to the lead the rest of her family, and that she worked for her beginning in his studio, and that her work was admiringly praised by one of the utmost tall artists of the day, Albrech D"urer, state is no diploma of what she did for Henry VIII as an artist that leftover. This gives me a lot of leeway in my work, which is a great plus, but it saddens me that state are no facts or works that last that can be accredited to her. Offer is a brass plaque in All Saints Priestly in Fulham, London, which commemorates her close relative, and art historians think it is apt the wound is by her, but that is the only purpose we carry of hers left. We divulge she was certain a gold cup at Christmas by Henry on two occasions, no matter which he gave to those who had rendered him great service modish that see, but we don't divulge what that service was. I carry made up no matter which full of anger and danger, of treat :).
Save for, if she did work for Henry as a painter, which seems the clearly identifiable ending to consider, after that she would carry been one of only three women who did work intently for Henry at the time - the considerably two were Anne Harris, who did his laundry, and Mrs Cornwallis, who made the King's puddings. Offer were four considerably women organization, but they worked in the laundry as well, and washed the Queen's grind. No matter which extremely was completed by men. It puts into angle the lukewarm of attitudes and prejudices Susanna would carry encountered. And on top of that, she was a recluse.
All of this, of treat, leads me to unusual mystery, and that is how Susanna and Parker came to meet and merge. The way art historians were able to work out that Susanna preceded her family was a diploma of her marriage to Parker, which pre-dated the time in the same way as her brother entered Henry's request. How did she come to merge a fine who, as the Protector of the Palace of Westminster, reasonable the King's personal purse? Parker was else Yeoman of the Crossbows, and was later promoted to Yeoman of the King's Fine clothes. Henry would readily merge off the daughters of his courtiers to considerably courtiers, manipulating and corresponding the power of his mall straight these connections. So for Parker to merge an artist from Ghent, with no connection to court? Excessively intriguing!
As you can tell, I had a great composition of fun writing the books, and loved how remote real history I can use to do so. To evaluate the upcoming death, I'll be bending absent a copy of IN A Double-crossing Appointment to one now then commenter, and I'd love to divulge, what is your first choice previous period?
"Michelle Diener is the author Tudor-set previous fantasy. Her debut, IN A Double-crossing Appointment releases Admired 2011 and the second book in the go will death in embryonic 2012. Ms. Diener was uneducated in London, raised in South Africa and now resides in Australia. Realize her website for on top information on her books (pre-order available!) her writing and her! http://www.michellediener.com/"
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