"Great Books for the SCA Tradition"

Heidi J Torres hjt at tenet.edu
Wed Jun 11 19:34:10 PDT 1997


Greetings from Mari!

On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 Mjccmc01 at aol.com wrote:

> Non-period works:
> 
> The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey.  This book is a murder mystery, but
> is one of the best, least painful introductions to historical research there
> is.  Please, read this book.  A&S documentation will seem much less
> burdensome and perhaps even (gasp!) fun.

I'll weigh in on this one as well.  A high school English teacher 
assigned this to our class -- it was eye-opening.  Excellent detective 
work.  Siobhan is correct -- you will see history and research with 
different eyes after reading this book.  Quick read, nicely done.

Mari



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