Comments on: Kenau Hasselaar amassed an army of 300 women to fight the invading Spanish in 1572. You never heard of her. https://booksbywomen.org/kenau-hasselaar/ Tue, 31 Dec 2013 13:51:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Featuring Women Writers on WWWB 2013 - Women Writers, Women Books https://booksbywomen.org/kenau-hasselaar/#comment-14729 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 13:51:42 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10219#comment-14729 […] Shanan Haislip Growing a Thick Skin – K. A. Laity Age: a Writer’s Ally – Randy Kraft Kenau Hasselaar.You never heard of her. – CJ Underwood Science in Fiction –  Sanjida O’Connell Is your writing Toxic? – […]

]]> By: Judith van Praag https://booksbywomen.org/kenau-hasselaar/#comment-11891 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 18:51:57 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10219#comment-11891 C.J., Such a wonderful idea to bring Kenau alive for readers outside the Dutch readers map. Your post, above speaks to me. Born, bred, raised in the Netherlands I heard Kenau’s name often used by my mother. And of course the Spanish War was covered in history class. Still, I can’t remember ever reading a novel about her, and it’s with great delight that I read the prologue and 1st chapter of your book. That time period lends itself so well to poetry, if a writer is equipped to write words of which each one counts. I appreciated an added word at the end of a sentence which brings the line and words around. Poetic fiction, where each word drives the story forward. I plan to read the rest out loud, as I did the beginning, to my husband, it’s not always that our interest in reading matches up. Thanks for bringing this baby into the world and good luck with sending it, or her around the world.

]]> By: Marialena https://booksbywomen.org/kenau-hasselaar/#comment-11841 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 09:55:39 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10219#comment-11841 Great story, can’t wait to get my hands on the novel. It’s wonderful that you re-discovered this sixteenth century heroine, and he army of heroines, and brought her story to the world. I find that “what would you do?” is a very interesting way to frame it.

]]> By: CJ Underwood https://booksbywomen.org/kenau-hasselaar/#comment-7633 Sat, 02 Nov 2013 13:43:53 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10219#comment-7633 In reply to Women Writers, Women, Books.

Anora, thank you so much, I really enjoyed writing it, and the site is wonderful, I love it.
CJ

]]> By: Women Writers, Women, Books https://booksbywomen.org/kenau-hasselaar/#comment-7598 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 17:18:02 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10219#comment-7598 CJ – What a great title. What a tight essay. I have ten things that I need to have done last week, but who could resist that title, and the once I started, you kept my attention.

Thank you so much for taking the time to write this for us!

–Anora McGaha, Editor WWWB

]]> By: Sylvia Freeman https://booksbywomen.org/kenau-hasselaar/#comment-7591 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 12:04:19 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10219#comment-7591 This sounds like a fascinating read about something I know nothing about. Can’t wait to read it. Thanks for the post.

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