Post #89 – Women’s Memoirs, Book & Video Raves – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler
The Beginners: A Novel by Rebecca Wolff
Reviewed by Lanie Tankard
One definition of memoir is “an account of historical events.” Do you have family history you’d like to present in book form? It’s possible to use your memoir material in a novel.
Poet Rebecca Wolff, editor and publisher of the literary journal Fence, is a descendant of Rebecca Towne Nurse, a woman hung in 1692 during the Salem Witchcraft Trials.
The government compensated Nurse’s family in 1711 for her wrongful death. Playwright Arthur Miller used the trials for his play “The Crucible,” later made into a movie. [click to continue…]
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