Books by Deborah Moggach
“This book is set around 1630, the time of Vermeer. At the centre of this book is a young woman called Sophia who has been married off to a much older merchant called Cornelis. She’s quite glad about that because she comes from a poor family and she will live in comfort. Cornelis commissions a marriage portrait from a painter called Jan, and when Jan comes to paint this portrait he and Sophia begin to have a relationship. So the novel is about greed and lust, and how Sophia becomes entirely immoral in how she schemes to get out of her marriage and start a life with Jan.” Read more...
Historical Novels About Women Written Out of History
Alice Jolly, Novelist
Interviews where books by Deborah Moggach were recommended
Historical Novels About Women Written Out of History, recommended by Alice Jolly
Historical fiction can be both a valid and a valuable mode of examining unrecorded or forgotten figures in history, argues the award-winning novelist Alice Jolly. That is especially the case for women’s history, which is so often thinly documented. Here she highlights five immersive novels that foreground female stories.
