Comments on: Researching Kipling and his Sister http://booksbywomen.org/researching-kipling-and-his-sister-by-mary-hamer/ Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:55:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Mary Hamer http://booksbywomen.org/researching-kipling-and-his-sister-by-mary-hamer/#comment-15862 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:55:06 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=9297#comment-15862 In reply to Sheana Ochoa.

Wow, Sheana, thank YOU! It’s so encouraging to get such a warm and vivid response, especially from another writer. I will look out for your biography. Stella Adler sounds a fascinating subject and a woman we should know about.

]]> By: Sheana Ochoa http://booksbywomen.org/researching-kipling-and-his-sister-by-mary-hamer/#comment-15825 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:18:42 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=9297#comment-15825 Mary, I love, love, loved your article about your journey writing about Kipling. I just finished a biography on Stella Adler and I wish I’d had the funds to go to Israel (not that she spent much time there), but she did do freedom fighting work to help found the state. After reading your post, I thought you should write a memoir about your travels and discoveries, not fitting in, the disappointments, the surprises, your personal revelations. Thanks for the post!

]]> By: Mary Hamer http://booksbywomen.org/researching-kipling-and-his-sister-by-mary-hamer/#comment-5547 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 10:43:30 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=9297#comment-5547 In reply to Sandra Goroff.

Thank you Sandra: yes it was a heart and soul commitment. I dreaded exploiting tmy characters, so I did my very best to be true to what was known of their lives, then imagined how those lives would have felt.

]]> By: Sandra Goroff http://booksbywomen.org/researching-kipling-and-his-sister-by-mary-hamer/#comment-5524 Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:56:30 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=9297#comment-5524 I am completely inspired by the way you have immersed yourself in your subject. Clearly this was a commitment of heart and soul. I congratulate you on this amazing accomplishment and look forward to becoming more familiar with your work.

]]> By: Mary Hamer http://booksbywomen.org/researching-kipling-and-his-sister-by-mary-hamer/#comment-5368 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:48:37 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=9297#comment-5368 In reply to Kathleen B. Jones.

Thanks for your generous response, Kathleen and good luck with your Christine de Pisan project. I’ve laways anted to know more about her . . .

]]> By: Kathleen B. Jones http://booksbywomen.org/researching-kipling-and-his-sister-by-mary-hamer/#comment-5084 Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:57:06 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=9297#comment-5084 Reading about the extent of your research and its emotional impact on you was inspiring. Your honesty in recounting the ways that you’d bought into “white fears” is laudable.

But I particularly resonated with this line in your essay: “Only fiction could do justice to their story.” As I embark on research for a novel about the life and times of Christine de Pisan, one of the earliest European women to support herself on her writing, I am inspired by your experience.

Thanks!

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