#dorothydunnett — Public Fediverse posts
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Exactly the sort of thing DD might say!
I should add that, meeting her, I wondered if Lymond's mother Sybilla represented a bit of self-portraiture ...
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Good idea! As I remember, it's a fine read even when you just dip in and out.
Should probably make a serious stab at re-immersing myself in the books with this by my side sometime soon.
I met DD once at a small reading in Boston. Exactly the sweet, charming, smiling Scottish lady, an assured society hostess (with the brain of an ultra-cooled supercomputer), that you'd expect.
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I'm still endlessly amused by "As we landed, [my mother] noticed a camel. Although expecting a camel, she was rendered temporarily silent [...]."
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Musical Diplomacy on the Global Stage: Dallam's Organ & Lymond's Spinet
The Dorothy Dunnett Society lecture 2024Dr 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
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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
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“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
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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 Women3/6
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy #SFF #writing #writingcommunity
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“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
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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
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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/
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“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
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“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 Women3/5
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #Scifi #SFF
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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
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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 🎂 🧵 …
1/5
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles
https://booksfromscotland.com/2019/06/rediscovering-dorothy-dunnett/
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@publicdomainrev @nicolewolverton @dunnettcentral for all lovers of Tobie in Dorothy Dunnett’s House of Niccolò series.
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Twitter's not good for much these days, but today it did lead me to my most recent book purchase, which I'm wildly excited about. #bookstodon #DorothyDunnett #TheGameOfKings
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@spiderbill Congratulations Bill. A fine article about #DorothyDunnett.
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#7books to know me (and that changed me) - hard to keep it to just seven:
1. Pride and Prejudice by #JaneAusten
2. Lord of the Rings by #Tolkien
3. A Pattern Language by #ChristopherAlexander
4. Queens’ Play by #DorothyDunnett
5. Little White Horse by #ElizabethGoudge
6. Always Coming Home by #leGuin
7. Life in the English Country House by #MarkGirouard
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#7books to know me (and that changed me) - hard to keep it to just seven:
1. Pride and Prejudice by #JaneAusten
2. Lord of the Rings by #Tolkien
3. A Pattern Language by #ChristopherAlexander
4. Queens’ Play by #DorothyDunnett
5. Little White Horse by #ElizabethGoudge
6. Always Coming Home by #leGuin
7. Life in the English Country House by #MarkGirouard
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#7books to know me (and that changed me) - hard to keep it to just seven:
1. Pride and Prejudice by #JaneAusten
2. Lord of the Rings by #Tolkien
3. A Pattern Language by #ChristopherAlexander
4. Queens’ Play by #DorothyDunnett
5. Little White Horse by #ElizabethGoudge
6. Always Coming Home by #leGuin
7. Life in the English Country House by #MarkGirouard
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#7books to know me (and that changed me) - hard to keep it to just seven:
1. Pride and Prejudice by #JaneAusten
2. Lord of the Rings by #Tolkien
3. A Pattern Language by #ChristopherAlexander
4. Queens’ Play by #DorothyDunnett
5. Little White Horse by #ElizabethGoudge
6. Always Coming Home by #leGuin
7. Life in the English Country House by #MarkGirouard
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CW: Crafting, books, Dorothy Dunnett
Finally, tonight, made my charm bracelet for the House of Niccolo series (by Dorothy Dunnett)
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@caffeneko The best description is historical fantasy. I discovered him after he was quoted in an article about Dorothy Dunnett, my favorite author of all time He considers her one of his inspirations and you can tell. Amazing detail and compelling characters #GuyGavrielKay #DorothyDunnett
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@missy_lynn @bookstodon "Pawn in Frankincense," Book 4 in #DorothyDunnett 's #LymondChronicles The whole series really, but PiF is devastating. 🥺
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@Sarah_Avery My absolute favorite is #DorothyDunnett but I have been rereading "Billy Budd" #HermanMelville because I got hooked into a "Moby Dick" Twitter debate this week. Psst. BB is better 😁
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@neilhimself Welcome! FYI, I have optimistically started two hashtags: #DorothyDunnett and #LymondChronicles
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CW: NPR, Dorothy Dunnett
Courtesy of @darlenemarshall : "It was other writers who introduced me to Dorothy Dunnett, and I'll always be grateful"