Category: Newsletter
What if the scandal wasn’t the whole story?
Posted on April 30, 2026 in Butterfly Games, Characters, Jacquette, Newsletter
When I first came across Jacquette Gyldenstolpe, I wasn’t struck by what history said about her. I was struck by what it didn’t. Here was a woman who lived at the center of power in early 19th-century Sweden—a countess moving in royal circles,…
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Q&A with Janis Robinson Daly, Author of Under Two Flags
Posted on March 4, 2026 in Interviews, Newsletter
Q&A with Janis Robinson Daly, Author of Under Two Flags For Women’s History Month, I’m delighted to share my conversation with Janis Robinson Daly, author of Under Two Flags: A Novel of World War I. Based on the memoir of Josephine Therese Marzyn…
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Butterfly Games—The Story Behind the Book
Posted on November 5, 2025 in Butterfly Games, Newsletter, Swedish Royals
A French General, a Broken Kingdom, and A Countess Want to know the story behind Butterfly Games? When people think of the early 1800s, they picture Napoleon storming across Europe or Marie Antoinette meeting her tragic end in the 1790s. Few realize…
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Six Degrees of Separation, Butterfly Games Edition–Napoleon to Jacquette
Posted on September 24, 2025 in Behind the Scenes, Butterfly Games, Newsletter, Swedish Royals
What do Napoleon Bonaparte and a Swedish countess named Jacquette have in common? More than you’d think! Here’s the whirlwind version: 1 As a young army officer, Napoleon proposed marriage to Désirée Clary, the daughter of a silk merchant from Marsei…
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