Comments on: Four Awesome Historical Ladies

By: Carleen Guffey Abercrombie

Carleen Guffey Abercrombie — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:52:51 +0000

Don’t limit this to these ladies (albeit they were aweseome). I need to discover more and give credibiity to my thinking that women rock–have for centuries! Any more we can discover? I am a history fan myself so I’m all for it.

By: Thena Dew

Thena Dew — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:50:20 +0000

thank you thank you thank you for the book and movie suggestions! I’m adding them to my netflix/goodreads lists! (keep em coming if you’d like!)

By: Jami DeVore

Jami DeVore — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:00:19 +0000

Wonderful! I was so happy to see that someone else was infatuated by powerful ladies of the past. I am obsessed with all the television shows and movies concerning them. No Marie Antoinette? Why is this?

By: Morgan Glennon

Morgan Glennon — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 03:36:05 +0000

Awesome! Putting those immediately on my to-read list! Robin Hood! <3 I'm sold already.
I bought the first Outlander book at a closing Borders recently (RIP Borders! You'll live in our hearts forever!) and I've heard only amazing things about it.

By: Amy Danielle

Amy Danielle — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 03:19:36 +0000

i LOVE historical fiction! if you haven’t already, check out the king raven series by stephen lawhead (they’re about robin hood! ah!) and the outlander series by diana gabaldon. i picked up outlander while it was on display at b&n for the 20th anniversary. i walked by, read the back, bought it, finished it last night and OH MY GOD. please read it! google it at the very least!

By: Sean Andres

Sean Andres — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:09:41 +0000

My favorites? Grace O’Malley, Queen Elizabeth I, Boudicca, and Bat Zabbai. Badass ladies rock.

By: Morgan Glennon

Morgan Glennon — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:13:47 +0000

LOVED The Tudors. I totally went through withdrawl after I marathoned the show this summer. (Thank you instant Netflix!)

For books I’d recommend The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett with some reservations. The six books of the series are probably some of my favorite books ever but they are also crazy complicated. If you don’t know what’s happening like 100 pages into the first book, that’s normal. You figure things out by the end though! LOL! I’ve heard Philippa Gregory is good although I haven’t read anything by her. On the nonfiction historical tab I really enjoyed “Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens” by Jane Dunn.

As for movies, despite Cate Blanchett being PERFECTION I’d stay away from Elizabeth. It really plays confusingly fast and loose with history. Elizabeth I, the mini-series with Helen Mirren, is pretty awesome though. Anne of the Thousand Days is also a good Anne Boleyn movie. And The Borgias is my new historical TV obsession. <3

By: Laura Phelps

Laura Phelps — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:32:36 +0000

Anything by Philippa Gregory is great (she wrote The Other Boleyn Girl-which is an excellent book but TERRIBLE movie) my favorite is the Constant Princess about Catherine of Aragon.