Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) was born #OTD, 25 Aug, in Dunfermline. She is best known as a writer of #HistoricalFiction – in particular the six-part LYMOND CHRONICLES that begin with those three fateful words:
“Lymond is back.”
A 🎂 🧵 …
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#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles
https://booksfromscotland.com/2019/06/rediscovering-dorothy-dunnett/
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”
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#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles
https://www.npr.org/2014/12/27/371710986/all-the-writers-you-love-probably-love-dorothy-dunnett
“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
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#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #Scifi #SFF
“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
Historian Yvonne Seale yvonne@hcommons.social 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/
