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Mother Time: Part Three
PART THREE of Mother Time continues the chain, for twelve more stories, to the start of the Fourteenth Century.
An unlettered girl dreams powerfully of the charming lawyer she will marry, but waking life with him is no dream come true. A devout woman watches aghast the changes in her church under King Henry VIII. A restless farmer’s daughter runs away to London. A child and her mother have very different experiences at the same midsummer production of mystery plays in York.
In mercantile London we find a glamorous spendthrift, a girl obsessed with a cad, an unlikely penitent on pilgrimage to Compostela, and a family in the path of the Black Death.
At last we discover the matriarch of the whole chain of women we have met in Mother Time, as she reviews her life and loves in the rattling farm wagon that will prove her deathbed.
An unlettered girl dreams powerfully of the charming lawyer she will marry, but waking life with him is no dream come true. A devout woman watches aghast the changes in her church under King Henry VIII. A restless farmer’s daughter runs away to London. A child and her mother have very different experiences at the same midsummer production of mystery plays in York.
In mercantile London we find a glamorous spendthrift, a girl obsessed with a cad, an unlikely penitent on pilgrimage to Compostela, and a family in the path of the Black Death.
At last we discover the matriarch of the whole chain of women we have met in Mother Time, as she reviews her life and loves in the rattling farm wagon that will prove her deathbed.
177 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 22, 2016
About the author
Louise Herman
4 books11 followersLouise Herman has written historical fiction all her life, while she practiced and taught as a lawyer to support her family. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
The settings for Mother Time took shape over decades of close reading and note-taking, but ordinary life provided the grist for the stories: family and friends, love and loss, mending and bread-baking, travel, work in factories, fields, shops and offices, struggles with money, religion and politics, tears and rages and a good deal of laughter.
Write to Louise at louise.mothertime@gmail.com.
The settings for Mother Time took shape over decades of close reading and note-taking, but ordinary life provided the grist for the stories: family and friends, love and loss, mending and bread-baking, travel, work in factories, fields, shops and offices, struggles with money, religion and politics, tears and rages and a good deal of laughter.
Write to Louise at louise.mothertime@gmail.com.
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