Cecelia Holland and The Secret Eleanor

Monday, August 2nd, 2010 | Cecelia Holland, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Guest Posts

Cecelia Holland, author of the new novel THE SECRET ELEANOR, has honored me by writing a guest post for us today. Cecelia, thanks for joining us, and for discussing the amazing woman who is Eleanor of Aquitaine…

Thank you to Christy for letting me post to her blog. She is a big fan of Eleanor of Aquitaine and so am I.

Eleanor should be a special icon to our time because she exploded all the conventions, all the stereotypes and biases that bound women in the Middle Ages to a passive role in the world. She lived as fully and actively as any man, chasing her ambitions and her dreams all her long life, and passed on her vigor to her children, especially her daughters.

At the same time, that was long ago. The accounts are sketchy. Her contemporaries, all men, wrote what they thought was happening, or what they wanted, and we all know real life is a lot different from the official versions. That’s where my book happens, in that secret, private zone of Eleanor’s life–while keeping faith with the known, public data, adding a twist only a woman would appreciate.

The forces against her were terrific–the whole attitude of a violent, male-dominated time, the all-powerful Church, the natural hazards of a rougher, riskier world than ours. Eleanor got what she wanted, and what she wanted was the world.

I could not have said it better myself…shouldn’t all the world belong to Eleanor? We, her rabid fans, think so.

To order a copy of THE SECRET ELEANOR, visit your local bookstore tomorrow or hit one of the links below…

To Order from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Eleanor-Cecelia-Holland/dp/0425234509/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1280498032&sr=1-1

To Order from Barnes and Noble:

http://productsearch.barnesandnoble.com/search/results.aspx?store=BOOK&WRD=the+secret+eleanor

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