Musical Diplomacy on the Global Stage: Dallam's Organ & Lymond's Spinet
The Dorothy Dunnett Society lecture 2024
Dr Jennifer L Wood compares the historical Thomas Dallam presenting a self-playing organ to the Ottoman Sultan, with Lymond taking the horological Spinet there in Pawn in Frankincense (The Lymond Chronicles 4)
6/6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DQE8uW6poo
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #history #16thcentury #music #musichistory
Historian Yvonne Seale on the women of the LYMOND CHRONICLES:
“some of the most compelling women characters you’re likely to find in print … after several years spent studying the history of women in pre-modern Europe […] I better understand just how much Dunnett’s female characters have both feet firmly planted in a sixteenth-century world”
5/6
https://yvonneseale.org/blog/2019/05/14/the-women-of-the-lymond-chronicles/
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #history #16thcentury
Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles may be one of the most influential series of novels that most people have never heard of. The books follow nobleman Francis Crawford of Lymond on his high-stakes adventures across mid-sixteenth century Europe from his native Scotland to Russia, from France to Malta to Turkey. Although many later writers, working in...
“these books stand or fall with their leading man – and what a creation he is… Francis Crawford is arguably the perfect romantic hero”
Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles: far more than sex & swords (but also: sex & swords! ⚔️🍆)
4/6
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction
Writing Epic Fantasy the Historical Fiction Way: Lessons from Dorothy Dunnett’s The Game of Kings
Marie Brennan’s 5 lessons from Dunnett – how to:
⭐️Use Omniscient Narration
⭐️Write Dynamic Politics
⭐️Write a Fight Scene
⭐️Write a Good Gary Stu
⭐️Include Women
3/6
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy #SFF #writing #writingcommunity
Dorothy Dunnett is one of those authors you hear about through word of mouth. She didn’t write fantasy—unless you count taking sixteenth-century belief in astrology as true from the perspective of her characters—but ask around, and you’ll find that a surprising number of SF/F authors have been influenced by her work. The Lymond Chronicles and […]
“The literary equivalent of the Velvet Underground”
All The Writers You Love Probably Love Dorothy Dunnett
Max Gladstone jokes, “Dunnett probably made me insufferable for a year or two, but she helped me find my voice”; Ellen Kushner calls the novels “the Dorothy Dunnett Six-Book Writers’ Academy”
2/6
https://www.npr.org/2014/12/27/371710986/all-the-writers-you-love-probably-love-dorothy-dunnett
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction
Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) was born #OTD, 25 Aug, in Dunfermline. She is best known as a writer of historical fiction – in particular the six-part LYMOND CHRONICLES that begin with those fateful words:
“Lymond is back.”
A 🎂 🧵
1/6
https://booksfromscotland.com/2019/06/rediscovering-dorothy-dunnett/
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction
Historian Yvonne Seale [email protected] on the women of the LYMOND CHRONICLES:
“some of the most compelling women characters you’re likely to find in print … after several years spent studying the history of women in pre-modern Europe […] I better understand just how much Dunnett’s female characters have both feet firmly planted in a sixteenth-century world”
5/5
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction
https://yvonneseale.org/blog/2019/05/14/the-women-of-the-lymond-chronicles/
Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles may be one of the most influential series of novels that most people have never heard of. The books follow nobleman Francis Crawford of Lymond on his high-stakes adventures across mid-sixteenth century Europe from his native Scotland to Russia, from France to Malta to Turkey. Although many later writers, working in...
“these books stand or fall with their leading man – and what a creation he is… Francis Crawford is arguably the perfect romantic hero”
Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles: far more than sex & swords
(but also: sex & swords! ⚔️🍆)
4/5
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction
“a surprising number of #sciencefiction & #fantasy authors have been influenced by her work”
Marie Brennan’s 5 lessons from Dunnett – how to:
⭐️Use Omniscient Narration
⭐️Write Dynamic Politics
⭐️Write a Fight Scene
⭐️Write a Good Gary Stu
⭐️Include Women
3/5
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #Scifi #SFF
Dorothy Dunnett is one of those authors you hear about through word of mouth. She didn’t write fantasy—unless you count taking sixteenth-century belief in astrology as true from the perspective of her characters—but ask around, and you’ll find that a surprising number of SF/F authors have been influenced by her work. The Lymond Chronicles and […]
All The Writers You Love Probably Love Dorothy Dunnett
Max Gladstone jokes, “Dunnett probably made me insufferable for a year or two, but she helped me find my voice”; Ellen Kushner calls the novels “the Dorothy Dunnett Six-Book Writers’ Academy”
2/5
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles
https://www.npr.org/2014/12/27/371710986/all-the-writers-you-love-probably-love-dorothy-dunnett
Assoc for Scottish Literature