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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