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Tracy chevalier

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• Tracy chevalier was born in 19 October in 1862 .

• She is from Washington.

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• When she was a child she liked reading books because she says:

• “As a kid I'd often said I wanted to be a writer because I loved books and wanted to be associated with them.”

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Tracy chevalier

• was graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Maryland and later leaving her job in 1993, she began a year-long M.A in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.

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Tracy chevalier• She is 47 years old now.

• She lives in London with her husband and son.

• She writes history novel’s books. Her books are fiction books but with a history context. The history context is about the thought of c.XVI – c.XVIII when women weren’t accepted as scientists or students because men beleived that they couldn’t think because they became crazy. Her books talk about many topics for example: women with scientific interest (a recent work), women’s arts interest and their great ability and women and men’s though in the time about desire.

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Tracy has published six books.

The Virgin Blue

Girl With a Pearl Earring

Falling Angels

The Lady and the Unicorn

Burning Bright

Remarkable creatures

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• Tracy Cheavlier adapted her book, Girl With A Pearl Earring, into a film and it was very succesfull

• One of her books, Falling Angels, is based in a real place, Highgate Cementery, London, England. The oldest section, holds an impressive collection of Victorian mausoleums and gravestones, plus elaborately carved tombs

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For Tracy Chevalier Women's suffrage was very important, this is the right of women to vote

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She published her first book in 1997. It was The Virgin Blue. A mysterious novel.

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Girl with a Pearl Earring: A painting

Tracy Chevalier writes when she is always thinking about something.

Her ideas are inspired in a lot of places.

The Virgin Blue: The color blue

Falling Angels: A cemetery

The Lady and the Unicorn: A set of medieval tapestries

Burning Bright : William Blake

Remarkable Creatures: Mary Anning

Tracy Chevalier

Mary Anning