Natania Barron Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@gaileyfrey The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri.

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12 - Vigée Le Brun painted over 660 portraits in her lifetime, and was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture: 1 of 14 women (of 550 total members) in its history pre-Revolution. She also caused a scandal with this portrait for her open mouth! Truly! 👄 https://t.co/f4ch0fvIyn

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I remember, clearly, sitting in what should have been Physical Science (we had a sub) and reading THE CRYSTAL CAVE by Mary Stewart. This quote from the second book of hers very much influenced Anna’s own at the book’s near climax. For the nerds out there. https://t.co/SPjAMIkWMf

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8 - In Austen's Emma, for instance, as David Parker points out (link later), the Christmas dinner at Mr. Weston's is just a nice dinner. Mr. Woodhouse is grumpy about the whole affair. Enthusiasm for Christmas is for plebs. But that's about to change. https://t.co/XjHArqaYYz

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I don’t know what’s cooler, that my youngest is absolutely obsessed with the Dealing with Dragons books by Patricia C. Wrede, or that she’s taken to calling me Morwen, after the witch in the series. ✨

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Do you need a poetry break? I bet you do. Fun fact, William Morris was a bit Arthuriana nut (and a fantasy writer!). I stumbled upon the poem "Palomydes' Quest" and did a little recording for you. https://t.co/yUPGEmUP3d

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Me, naming characters: "There's no way I can ever name a character the same thing across different stories or books." Jane Austen: "Jane. Jane. Mary. Mary. Liz. Elizabeth."

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I did a reading of my Arthurian novel. A man came up to me and asked if I’d read “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” I said it was one of my main studies during my MA work, and content for this book’s sequel. He then kindly recapped it for me. 😑 https://twitter.com/lrnrose/status/1483228098996977671

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As I come up on two years since publication of QUEEN OF NONE, here's an essay I wrote about one of the central themes in the book: the role of the mother-hero. "Fairy tales are not kind to mothers." https://t.co/uRBidw8r1S

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3 - The word banyan (or banjan, or banian) has an interesting etymology, coming to English (it is posited) from the Tamil word vanigan, meaning trader or merchant. In many parts of South Asia, the word banyan still refers to an undershirt. Isaac Newton, here, early 1710s. https://t.co/BMFnZKcBAY