by Alison Bass | Oct 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
In Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, Rebecca is portrayed as an almost magical healer who has special ointments that can rid the body of infection and cure all kinds of ailments. When Ivanhoe, just back from the Crusades and disguised as a Spanish knight, is badly...
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...
