PAPERBACK RELEASE: THE QUEEN'S DWARF

Sometimes I wonder how many more people would be interested in history if the textbooks and curriculums included the little tidbits novelists seem to dig up when they write fictional stories based on real-life events. Take, for example, the situation going on in Ella March Chase's The Queen's Dwarf, in which Henrietta Maria, the French queen of England and the wife of King Charles I, collects a party of unique individuals known as her "Curiosities and Freaks of Nature." One of these little f...