I’m reading a book about Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feakes Hallet (The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton), who came to America in the late 1600s as one of the first settlers in Massachusetts. She’s a real person, and the book that I’m reading relies heavily on actual documents and papers from her life to help create the story. The author is good about mixing her imaginary conversations with actual letters that were written at the time.
But it’s ALL I CAN DO not to go to Wikipedia and see how it all ends. *lol* I’m that way about EVERY book I read about a real person. The books aren’t true “biographies” since they are historical fiction, but I’m doing my very best not to see how Miss Elizabeth Fones Winthrop ends up (I do know from reading the preface of the book that she lived a scandalous life despite being in a Puritan colony (well, scandalous according to Puritan dictates)).
I’m about 1/3rd into the book and it’s endlessly fascinating.