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Researching Highwaymen for GLIMPSE

Posted by Kendra Leighton on Aug 9, 2014 | Leave a comment

I’m a little in awe of authors who write historical novels. Crafting a good story and researching all the details is some feat. I had a taster of that research with Glimpse, which is inspired by Noyes’ poem ‘The Highwayman’ (published in 1906 but set much earlier; probably the 1700s, which was the heyday of highwaymen). While I didn’t need a lot of historical information for my plot (which is mostly set in the present day), a chapter or two relied quite heavily on it, and I wanted to be able to throw in an occasional detail here and there. Here’s what my research looked like. Voice and Language   I stumbled across the Huzzar...