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Digging Deep in the 17th Century feat. Deborah Swift, author of Entertaining Mr Pepys

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Join me as I chat with Deborah Swift, author of four novels listed on Art In Fiction, including The Lady's Slipper and the Women of Pepys' Diaries series, all set in England in the 17th century.

Highlights:

Genesis of The Lady's Slipper (Visual Arts)

Why the novel is set following the English Civil War

Orchids in The Lady's Slipper

Reading from The Lady's Slipper

The Women of Samuel Pepys' Diaries series and the trilogy of novels inspired by them

Women in 17th-century theater

Researching the 17th century

How to make a novel "compulsively readable"

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