Virginia DeMarce

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Virginia DeMarce
Born	(1940-11-28) November 28, 1940 (age 83)
Occupation	Novelist short story writer historian
Education	Stanford University (PhD)
Genre	Alternate history
Years active	2003–present (fiction) 1967-1996 (non-fiction)
Notable works	1634: The Bavarian Crisis

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Virginia Easley DeMarce (born November 28, 1940) is an American historian who specializes in

peoples.

Biography

DeMarce received her Ph.D. in early modern European history from Stanford University in 1967, with a dissertation in German administrative history during the time of the 1525 German Peasants' War.^[2] She taught at the college level for fifteen years, at Northwest Missouri State University and George Mason University and published a book on German military settlers in Canada after the American Revolution.

In 1988-89 she served as president of the National Genealogical Society, an interest she came to professionally in social history and demographic history tracing small group migrations.^[3] After several years on the staff of the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers, she took a position with the Office of Federal Acknowledgment, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior,^[4] from which she retired in 2004.

DeMarce continues to live in

, with her husband of 43 years (deceased in 2010), who was Director of Coal Mine Workers Compensation Programs at the U.S. Department of Labor. She spends most of her time tending to her crops that have been scorched by the droughts in recent summer seasons. They have three grown children and five grandchildren.

Published works

In addition to scholarly work on Early Modern Europe, genealogy, The Melungeons, and bibliographic work in early US history, DeMarce has written or co-authored a number of formative short stories and novels in the 1632 series collaborative fiction project. She is one of the principal controlling parties of the collaboration, and a member of the 1632 editorial board. In these positions, she helps select likely stories for the project and manages the 1632 canon, common shared resources, and integration between authors.

She began writing fiction upon the request of participants in the

, where she had contributed technical input and assistance. Her first fiction contribution to the project was the short story "Biting Time", which she wrote with great reluctance under much pressure.

As of 2014, all four of her long fiction were listed on various best selling book lists. In particular, 1634: The Bavarian Crisis was listed on the

Short fiction

• "Biting Time" in Ring of Fire — a short story featuring Veronica Richter, grandmother of Gretchen and Hans Richter, two important characters in 1632. It details both her courtship to Grantville's mayor as well as the founding of the first of her "Academies", reactions against the lack of corporal punishment in up-timer discipline.
• The Rudolstadt Colloquy in
  Grantville Gazette I
   — a short story dealing with a religious crisis among Lutherans caused by news of Grantville and the information in its history books. The events of the story are mentioned in several of the novels, establishing it as deep background for the works as a whole.
• Pastor Kastenmayer’s Revenge in
  Grantville
  , his oldest daughter gets swept off her feet by a handsome up-timer and marries a few days later without permission.
  With the help of a formidable widow, the pastor plots a fitting revenge and founds a fifth-column that seeks to not only trap eligible bachelors into marriage to his doweryless flocks daughters, but to convert the scoundrels into becoming stalwart Lutherans. The tale is loosely modeled on the Seven Daughters for Seven Sons, at least in numbers, and every couple has their story that spans the time line from 1631 to early 1635.
• Til We Meet Again in Grantville Gazette IV — a widowed up-timer responds to her husband's death by joining the faculty in the newly established women's college in Quedlinburg.
• Murphy's Law in Grantville Gazette V
• A Gift from the Duchess and Second Thoughts in Ring of Fire II
• Arrested Development as (Gazette Singles Book 1) ASIN B00EHN30YE
• "On the Jerichow Road" with
  ISBN 978-1962398008
  )

Long fiction

• ISBN 1-4165-2060-0
  .
• ISBN 978-1-4165-4253-7
  .
• ISBN 1-4165-5589-7
  .
• ISBN 978-1-4391-3308-8
  .
• The Legions of Pestilence (April 2019),
  ISBN 978-1948818353
• The Trouble With Huguenots (December 2019),
  ISBN 978-1948818636
• Things Could Be Worse: The Pastor Kastenmayer Stories (October 2020),
  ISBN 978-1953034205
• Designed To Fail (December 2020),
  ISBN 978-1953034403
• The Unexpected Sales Reps (February 2022),
  ISBN 978-1956015485

Genealogical and historical research

• DeMarce, Virginia E. (March 1992). "Verry Slitly Mixt': Tri-Racial Isolate Families of the Upper South - A Genealogical Study". National Genealogical Society Quarterly. 80: 5–35.
• DeMarce, Virginia E. (March 1993). "Looking at Legends - Lumbee and Melungeon: Applied Genealogy and the Origins of Tri-Racial Isolate Settlements". National Genealogical Society Quarterly. 81: 24–45.
• DeMarce, Virginia E. (June 1996). "Review of The Melungeons: Resurrection of a Proud People". National Genealogical Society Quarterly. 84: 134–149.
• Demarce, Virginia Easley (1984). The Settlement of Former German Auxiliary Troops in Canada After the American Revolution. Lost in Canada.
  OCLC 644057168
  .

References

1. ^
   New York Times
   . October 21, 2007.
2. ProQuest 302266223
   .
3. ^ Wilcox, Shirley Langdon (October 31, 2003). "The National Genealogical Society: A Look at Its First One Hundred Years" (PDF). National Genealogical Society. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
4. New York Times
   . Retrieved November 14, 2007.
5. ^ "Locus Bestsellers, January 2008". Locus. January 2008.
6. ^ "Locus Bestsellers, July 2006". Locus. July 2006.
7. ^ "Locus Bestsellers, August 2006". Locus. August 2006.
8. ^ "Locus Bestsellers, March 2009". Locus. March 2009.
9. ^ "Locus Bestsellers, March 2010". Locus. March 2010.

External links

• Virginia DeMarce at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database