When life becomes difficult, a woman has two options: run the other way, or walk through the flames.

 

It’s the women who walk through the flames I want to talk about. ​I write and explore historical fiction that brings their stories to life.​

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History includes an abundance of women who stood in the face of danger, who spoke truth to power, who put everything on the line and pressed for change. These female forbearers teach us it’s okay, even necessary sometimes, to push against the grain.

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One such woman was Mary Wollstonecraft, the subject of my debut novel Solitary Walker. Historians consider Wollstonecraft the mother of feminism for her text A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, penned in 1792. This critical piece of writing caught the attention of reformers in England and France in the 18th century and helped ignite the first and second waves of feminism in America and the United Kingdom in the 19th and 20th centuries.​​