Background Reading

If you’d like to read more about the background to The Rose of Sebastopol, here are a few suggestions:

The Novels

About Katharine

Contacts

Q&A

What's Next?

Return to Historical Context

Any one of these books will draw you deeper into the world of The Rose of Sebastopol.

For women in the Crimea:
No Place for the Ladies – Helen Rappaport (Aurum Press)
Florence Nightingale, Letters from the Crimea – Sue M. Goldie. (Mandolin)

For the Crimean background:
The Crimean War – Paul Kerr (Macmillan)
Crimea – Trevor Royle (Abacus)

For the Victorian background:
The Victorians. A.N. Wilson (Hutchinson)
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon Pam Hirsch (Chatto & Windus).

The Plot

Read an extract from The Rose of Sebastopol

The characters

Researching the novel

Behind the novel

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