by Alison Bass | Sep 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
When I started writing Rebecca of Ivanhoe, I had no idea where Sir Walter Scott got the inspiration for the character of Rebecca, the beautiful and spirited Jewish healer who is rescued from a hideous death by the knight Ivanhoe in Scott’s 1819 novel. It...
by Alison Bass | Sep 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
I am a lover of historical fiction, which is why it makes sense, when I turned my hand to fiction, that I chose to write a historical novel, Rebecca of Ivanhoe, which is a sequel of sorts to Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe. So I’d like to share with you some of...
by Alison Bass | Aug 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
A number of people have asked how I came up with the idea of writing a sequel to Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, the story of a knight in medieval England who saves a beautiful Jewish healer from being burned alive as a witch. I often concoct stories as a way to get...
by Alison Bass | Jul 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
My novel, Rebecca of Ivanhoe, is now available for preorder on Amazon, Bookshop, Barnes & Noble and wherever books are sold online. It is a sequel to Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, which tells the story of a knight in medieval England who rescues a beautiful Jewish...
by Alison Bass | Apr 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Okay, I’ll admit it: I was already angry at UnitedHealthcare for yanking up the premium for my supplemental plan G in the middle of the year, after previously raising the premium just a few months prior. And then I read this disturbing article in the New York...
