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Jessica Cale is an award-winning author, public historian, and journalist. Originally from Minnesota, she earned her BA in History and MFA in Creative and Media Writing at Swansea University in Wales, while working as a freelance contributor to BBC History Magazine. She has volunteered as a sex-education teacher for Planned Parenthood, and she brings the history of sex to a broader audience as the host of the Dirty Sexy History podcast and editor of the Dirty Sexy History blog. She has appeared as an on-camera historian on Netflix’s hit docudrama, The Lost Pirate Kingdom. Jessica is passionate about women’s social and medical history, focusing on the history of sex, contraception, drugs, and cosmetics

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What inspired the Southwark Saga, Jessica? You provide such vivid descriptions of historic London, and the reader gets a sense you've spent a lot of time there. Thank you.

Jessica Cale Thank you for the question! The Southwark Saga really started with the idea for Tyburn, which actually came from a nightmare I had about the horse! Th…moreThank you for the question! The Southwark Saga really started with the idea for Tyburn, which actually came from a nightmare I had about the horse! The dream was set in another period, and the horse was on its way to a hanging. It was an incredibly vivid dream and it really haunted me, so I decided I had to put it into writing to make sense of it. I wrote the execution of Claude Duval first, and that has remained the first scene of the book.

You're absolutely right about London -- I lived in the UK for seven years and traveled to London several times. The first time I went to London, I got lost and Tyburn was actually the first landmark I saw there! I've always loved history, so living in the UK was a treat. My husband is from London (south of the river -- you might have guessed!), so we went down as often as we could. London is really one big historic site, so I would try to imagine it as it used to be. John's degrees are in seventeenth century history, so he would tell me all of these little anecdotes about the places and their history, and this is really what got me interested in that period. Plus, between the two of us, we have plenty of books!

When reading about London and the surrounding areas at the time, I was really drawn to Southwark. It was still a separate town, but so close to London, and was considered a "bastard sanctuary" -- because of the cathedral, much of it was still sacred ground and people couldn't be arrested there for a time, so it attracted a certain criminal element. It was an incredibly poor area, and it had docks, the smellier trades, prisons, fighting pits, and even lepers. It seemed like the perfect place for highwayman Mark Virtue to live, and a great place for Sally to hide in Tyburn. Jane has to try to survive it in Virtue's Lady. Southwark has a very long and colorful history (it's even mentioned in the Canterbury Tales) and it becomes almost a character in itself in the books. I named the series The Southwark Saga because all of the future books are going to be connected to it in some way, and will follow the characters who live there in Tyburn and Virtue's Lady.

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Jessica Cale Tyburn is the first of a series (The Southwark Saga), and I am currently finishing the second book. This one picks up immediately where Tyburn leaves …moreTyburn is the first of a series (The Southwark Saga), and I am currently finishing the second book. This one picks up immediately where Tyburn leaves off and follows Nick's brother, Mark, as he falls for a surprising - and very inconvenient - young lady. I don't want to spoil anything for you, so that's all I'll say! I am also researching the third one at the moment, and this is quite a challenge because it's a setting I'm not very familiar with. There's a lot going on! (less)

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	Tyburn (The Southwark Saga, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Valentines From Bath: A Bluestocking Belles Collection by Jessica Cale (Goodreads Author), Sherry Ewing (Goodreads Author), Jude Knight (Goodreads Author) 4.39 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Broken Things (The Southwark Saga, #4) 4.45 avg rating — 95 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Virtue's Lady (The Southwark Saga, #2) 4.06 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Way Home (The Southwark Saga, #3) 4.30 avg rating — 83 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Artemis (Southwark Scions, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 83 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sleeping Evie 4.25 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Never Too Late: A Bluestocking Belles Collection by Jessica Cale (Goodreads Author), Elizabeth Ellen Carter (Goodreads Author), Susana Ellis (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nightingale and the Lark (Regency in Color Book 4) 3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beauty and the Bounder (Southwark Scions Book 2) 3.86 avg rating — 28 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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