We explore how Martine incorporates feminism into historical fiction in a way that respects history and characters, by finding friction points between the character’s desires and their experience of the world. Also, Erin emotes about corsets.
Links:
- KidLit Craft website
- Martine Leavitt’s Buffalo Flats
- The book Erin references set in 15th-Century China is Lisa See’s Lady Tan’s Circle of Women.
- The story of Esther
The KidLit Craft Podcast is hosted by Anne-Marie Strohman and Erin Nuttall.
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Anne-Marie Strohman (co-editor) writes picture books, middle grade novels, and young adult short stories and novels. She is trained as a teacher, an editor, and a scholar, specializing in Renaissance Literature. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is an active member of SCBWI. Find her at amstrohman.com and on Twitter @amstrwriter.
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