Price was not, I suspect, a writer who was willing to be pinned down to any predictable model of fiction. There is a strong thread of Christian faith in the novels, but the inclusion of spiritual matters does not preclude a degree of sensuality that might surprise readers accustomed to today’s inspirational format.
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This does not mean that there was a marked change of style halfway through the series, though Price’s skill at weaving historical events into her narrative was clear from the outset, and I found this to be one of those rare series that could satisfy two types of reader-those looking for romance and those who wish to learn more about the antebellum South. Stiles provided an excellent framework for carrying the Browning-Mackay story into the Civil War, and illustrating the divisions that the conflict produced within even the closest-knit families.īroadly speaking, the first two books in the series, Savannah and To See Your Face Again, laid more emphasis on the fictional romances of the Browning family, while the third and fourth books, Before The Darkness Falls and Stranger in Savannah, had a stronger historical emphasis and were more concerned with the Mackay and Stiles families. Lee and lesser-known Southern politician W.H. Price discovered the Mackays while researching an earlier series, and their connections with Robert E.
It inserted a fictional character-Mark Browning, arriving in Savannah from Philadelphia in 1812, on the eve of the war between Britain and the young United States of America-into the life of the real Savannah family of Robert and Eliza Mackay. The Savannah Quartet was originally published between 19. We take this manner of blending historical biography and fictional romance for granted these days, but it was groundbreaking in the 1970s, and Price’s popularity soared. Simons Island (Price and Blackburn moved there from Chicago in 1965), but to Price’s decision to branch out into a new kind of writing: novels dramatizing the lives of ordinary people living on the fringes of unfolding American history. This led not only to a lifelong attachment to St. Price, who passed away in 1996, already had a successful career in radio and nonfiction writing when, in 1961, she and fellow writer Joyce Blackburn decided to take a few hours out of a business trip to visit St. So when I was offered the chance to review a 2013 re-issue of the Savannah Quartet by Eugenia Price, my interest was piqued. Despite the overall trend toward shorter books, it seems that the sprawling tragedy-and-romance epic is still firmly with us. There seems to be a brisk market in collecting chunky historical romance novels from the ’80s and ’90s with their vividly drawn covers and, preferably, stepback interior covers, which makes me wonder if the decision to replace those marvelous illustrations with bare-chested male models was a good one. I’ve also noticed that sagas captivate a large fan base on reader sites such as Goodreads and Historical Fiction Online.
Both series, while not lacking in action, are heavy on descriptive detail and take time world-building and developing characters, attracting legions of passionate fans.
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Martin (known on TV as A Game of Thrones) and the Outlander series by HNS member Diana Gabaldon, now also in production for TV. Despite all the agent advice I’ve read about keeping the writing tight and not overwhelming the reader with research or descriptive detail, I can’t help noticing that two runaway successes of recent years are the Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. You know the type: the books are two inches thick, and they still have to make the font really small to pack the story into the space. It’s my belief that hi storical fiction attracts, perhaps more than any other genre except fantasy, the kind of reader who will willingly devote weeks or even months to reading a sprawling, multi-generational saga.
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