On Writing

Overview and Issue

• Article on writing from the Estate of Dorothy Dunnett
• WG156

Abstract

• Dorothy Dunnett's perspective on writing a series of historical novel, the balancing of fact to fiction and the decreasing availability/increasing cost of reliable source material for later books in the series.

Author

• Dorothy Dunnett

Illustrations

• Woman writing at a table, Anonymous, 16th century. Wikimedia Commons