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TC-Descendants Newsletter: 2020

Taylor Caldwell sits aboard the Bergensfjord (not the Rotterdam, the ship on which she often sailed for many months) in March 1969, with her two daughters, Peggy (left), Judy and Judy's husband Ted Goodman. 		Taylor Caldwell, her two daughters Peggy and Judy, and Ted Goodman, Judy's husband
Rainbow Line

1st Quarter 2020
Introduction to Peggy's Autobiography (mostly a biography of TC).
Chap. 2 Access: Peggy's remembrance of TC just before Dynasty of Death:
TC's first published novel, appears.
Two trilogies epitomizing TC's non-historical themes over 40 large novels.
Rainbow Line


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2nd Quarter 2020
TC as a person, through Peggy's autobiography and by comparing recognitions:
for her, Ayn Rand, and Joyce Carol Oates.
Four newsletters that take on the parts of Pillar of Iron:
the time of Rome to which history is glued.
Getting closer to TC's major themes, and those who epitomize them.
Rainbow Line

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3rd Quarter 2020
Dealing with TC's trilogies and tetralogies, starting with The Armaments Family.
Reckoning with TC's personification of evil by reviewing the 4 parts of Pillar of Iron.
1st 3rd of an historically acknowledged love story: When Aspasia met Pericles
While not by any means the first to take it on, TC's approach is unique.
Rainbow Line

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4th Quarter 2020
The three parts of the earliest and most exciting characters in TC's historical novels: Pericles and Aspasia.
Personal letters of TC; examining how she judged the politics of now and then.
Her tropes and her exceedingly strong relation to the John Birch Society.
Rainbow Line

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