Back in high school, I remember overhearing two girls lamenting how awful their classes were and how they ‘hated’ history. Since I was hiding in a bathroom stall at the time, I didn’t give voice to my horror at their sentiment, but it has stuck with me in the thirty… Read More »Writing Historical Fiction by Sarah Woodbury
Early in August of 1306, Elizabeth Bruce — wife of the newly crowned King of Scots, Robert the Bruce — was captured by the Earl of Ross at St. Duthac on the shores of Dornoch Firth. With her were the Earl of Atholl, her stepdaughter Marjorie Bruce, and her sisters-in-law… Read More »Robert and Elizabeth Bruce: A Love Story by N. Gemini Sasson
Did you know that Robert the Bruce’s wife, Elizabeth, was captured and held in custody by the English for 8 years? In 1306, Robert the Bruce and his ragged band were fleeing south through the Scottish Highlands after a devastating defeat by the Earl of Pembroke at the Battle of… Read More »The Capture of Elizabeth Bruce by N. Gemini Sasson