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An old law leads to forced marriage–can this bride be saved?

June 29, 2021 by Claudia Long Leave a Comment

 Barcelona, 1584 Dear Madam Mariana,  I dare not ask this question of anyone I know but–I must seek counsel.  In Jewish law, when a man dies, his brother is obligated […]

Filed Under: advice, Jewish law, love, sons, Uncategorized, widows Tagged With: #eggs, #fertility, #fertility foods, #halitzah, #indiewriter, #levirate marriage, #levirate union, #lovelorn #MadamMariana, #mandrakes, #Pride and Prejudice, #womensfiction, advice, Jewish, widows, Women's Dreams

How to not marry Igor, or, He got the estate, now he wants me!

May 20, 2021 by Claudia Long Leave a Comment

CP Lesley Song of the Sisters

[In which Madam Mariana travels back to Moscow, 1543, to help the lovely Russian noblewoman, Darya Petrovna, avoid her cousin Igor’s grasping ways: He got her daddy’s estate, and now […]

Filed Under: advice, artists, From Russia with love, Journeys, love, Russia, Uncategorized Tagged With: #indiewriter, #lovelorn #MadamMariana, #MadamMariana, #newbook #womensfiction #Latina, #womensfiction, advice, historical fiction, historical romance, Women's Dreams

Look who’s back! The original Mariana!

May 13, 2021 by Claudia Long Leave a Comment

Ciudad de Mexico, 1587 Estimada Madam Mariana, I am caught between two suitors–again! My brother in law, Jorge de Almeida, remember him? the “other Jorge,” my sister Leonor’s husband? Anyway, […]

Filed Under: advice, Journeys, love, Mexico, silver mining, Uncategorized Tagged With: #bigamy, #MadamMariana, #mercurypoisoning, #silvermining, historical fiction, inquisition, Jewish, Mexico, Women writers, Women's Dreams, writing

No chocolates or roses. Equal living-wage pay, please.

March 8, 2016 by Claudia Long Leave a Comment

No roses, chocolates or congratulations, please!  Do you know these women? Guess why not! Who was Anita Whitney? Leader and early founder of the American Communist Party, she was an […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #IWD2016, #womensfiction, #WomensHistoryMonth, 1920, harlot, historical fiction, Women's Dreams, workers' rights, writing

Impermanence, and the more things change

October 9, 2014 by Claudia Long 6 Comments

It’s not surprising, at the end of the High Holidays, that my thoughts turn to change. Return again, we sang, return to the land of your soul. So I mused […]

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