by Alison Bass | Sep 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
Near the end of his classic tale, Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott mentions that Rebecca, the healer rescued by Ivanhoe, and her father are fleeing to Spain. Even though Ivanhoe saved Rebecca from being burned alive as a witch, she no longer feels safe in England. So she and...
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...
by Alison Bass | Feb 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
My novel, Rebecca of Ivanhoe, has been accepted by Bedazzled Ink Publishing and will be released in October. It is a sequel to Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, which told the story of a knight in medieval England who rescues a beautiful Jewish healer from being burned...
by Alison Bass | Aug 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
The title of the Profs and Pints lecture, “What will happen when Vladimir Putin is no longer Russia’s president?” was intriguing so I decided to go to the event. Profs and Pints takes place at Penn Social, a bar and event space in northwest DC, and it...
by Alison Bass | Jul 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
Last winter I had a bright idea: I would buy an affordable electric car for tooling around Washington, D.C. and park my old Toyota Camry at our family house on Martha’s Vineyard. That way, I could save on gas and fly in and out of the island from D.C. every...
by Alison Bass | Jul 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Now that COVID is (hopefully) in our rear view mirrors, the Edgartown Library has invited me to give a talk about my memoir, Brassy Broad: How one Journalist helped pave the way to #MeToo, on July 29 at 11 am. The event at the library, which is located at 26 West...
