Juliet Greenwood, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/julietgreenwood/ Thu, 14 May 2020 12:24:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Writing about the Resilience of Women by Juliet Greenwood http://booksbywomen.org/writing-about-the-resilience-of-women-juliet-greenwood/ http://booksbywomen.org/writing-about-the-resilience-of-women-juliet-greenwood/#respond Thu, 14 May 2020 08:47:05 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=30859 Juliet Greenwood The thing that really struck me most when researching the First World War for my first novel with Orion, The Ferryman’s Daughter, was the extraordinary reliance of women, both in war and in peace.  So often women are seen as victims of war, just as they are of poverty and discrimination. Things are […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/writing-an-unsympathetic-heroine-by-juliet-greenwood/feed/ 0 16704 When Historical Fiction Meets Political Turmoil… A Ladies’ Tearoom And The Road To Downing Street. http://booksbywomen.org/when-historical-fiction-meets-political-turmoil-a-ladies-tearoom-and-the-road-to-downing-street-by-juliet-greenwood/ http://booksbywomen.org/when-historical-fiction-meets-political-turmoil-a-ladies-tearoom-and-the-road-to-downing-street-by-juliet-greenwood/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2016 06:12:14 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=16261 It has been a very strange experience these last few weeks, putting the final touches to a novel about women’s long, hard struggle to achieve the vote, while watching the political rollercoaster here in the UK – one that has led to a female Prime Minister, and Home Secretary, something almost unthinkable not so long […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/when-historical-fiction-meets-political-turmoil-a-ladies-tearoom-and-the-road-to-downing-street-by-juliet-greenwood/feed/ 1 16261 The Novelistas – A Great Group of Writing Friends http://booksbywomen.org/the-novelistas-a-great-group-of-writing-friends/ http://booksbywomen.org/the-novelistas-a-great-group-of-writing-friends/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:09:28 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=13785 The NW Novelistas (also known as Novelistas Ink) are a group of friends, who also happen to be writers, and meet each month for lunch, writerly gossip and mutual support. The group was founded over fifteen years ago by Sunday Times bestselling author Trisha Ashley, and as you can see from our latest books , […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/the-novelistas-a-great-group-of-writing-friends/feed/ 2 13785 Women and Myths in Storytelling http://booksbywomen.org/women-and-myths-in-storytelling/ http://booksbywomen.org/women-and-myths-in-storytelling/#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2015 08:10:47 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=13245 I recently wrote a blog post for my group of fellow authors, Novelistas Ink, about my previous incarnation running storytelling workshop based on myths. Writing the post made me think again about the role of myths in storytelling, and in storytelling about women in particular. (You can find the original post here) The ancient myths […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/women-and-myths-in-storytelling/feed/ 6 13245 Recipes of World War One http://booksbywomen.org/recipes-of-worldwar-one-by-juliet-greenwood/ http://booksbywomen.org/recipes-of-worldwar-one-by-juliet-greenwood/#comments Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:21:30 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10010 When I began researching for my new novel, ‘We That Are Left’, I knew that it was going to be set in WW1 and that it was going to be focussed on the experiences of women. I love the war poets like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sasson and I have family in France, so I […]

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