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Tracy Chevalier

1962

9 fiction

Tracy Chevalier is an American-British novelist best known for historical fiction that places imagined lives within carefully researched settings. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1962, she moved to Britain in the 1980s and later studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Her novels often focus on artists, craftspeople and women whose experiences are only briefly recorded, or entirely absent, from conventional historical accounts.

She achieved international success with Girl with a Pearl Earring, inspired by Johannes Vermeer’s painting of the same name and set in seventeenth-century Delft. Her other novels include Falling Angels, The Lady and the Unicorn, Remarkable Creatures, The Last Runaway and At the Edge of the Orchard. Chevalier’s work is noted for its restrained prose, strong sense of place and close attention to domestic life, social convention and the creative process.

Periods and events

Abolitionism & American Slaveryc. 1830–1865 CE Age of Explorationc. 1400–1600 CE California Gold Rush1848–1855 CE Dutch Golden Age1588–1672 CE Early Modern France1498–1789 CE Edwardian Society1901–1914 CE French Revolution1789–1799 CE Georgian Era1714–1830 CE Georgian London1714–1837 CE Great Depression1929–1939 CE Italian Wars1494–1559 CE Late Medievalc. 1300–1500 CE Late Medieval France1300–1499 CE Medieval France987–1498 CE Medieval Italy476–1494 CE Medieval Venicec. 697–1500 CE Napoleonic Era1792–1815 CE Old West and Frontier America1803–1912 CE Rise of Fascism1919–1939 CE St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre1572 CE Underground Railroadc. 1800–1865 CE Victorian Era1837–1901 CE Women’s Suffrage Movement in Britain1903–1918 CE World War I1914–1918 CE World War II1939–1945 CE

Historical fiction

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