Some interesting developments recently, of an unexpected sort. I’ve finally decided to start working on volume two of my alternate history, which will be called Oculus. It didn’t occur to me for the first volume to check blogs on historical research. This time it did. Occur, that is.
So I typed in Germaine de Stael to see what popped up. I found this about an upcoming conference at, of all places, Washington University here in St. Louis, May 8 – 10, 2009.
Anyway, I promptly emailed Prof. Szmurlo, who is organizing the conference, with a query as to whether or not she would be willing to answer some questions about Madame de Stael. …