Elizabeth Chadwick Quote

While writing The Summer Queen, I was constantly told that Alienor was a woman ahead of her time. But my own take is that she was a woman of her time doing her best within the boundaries of what society would permit. Any attempt to go outside those boundaries was immediately and sometimes brutally quashed, but she was nothing if not resilient. I

Elizabeth Chadwick

While writing The Summer Queen, I was constantly told that Alienor was a woman ahead of her time. But my own take is that she was a woman of her time doing her best within the boundaries of what society would permit. Any attempt to go outside those boundaries was immediately and sometimes brutally quashed, but she was nothing if not resilient. I

Related Quotes

About Elizabeth Chadwick

Elizabeth Chadwick (born 1957) is an author of historical fiction. She is a member of Regia Anglorum, a medieval reenactment organisation.