A Redcoat Dressed as a Young Lady-Whatever Next?!!!

One of the aspects of writing a Pride and Prejudice sequel that I enjoyed immensely was taking a small incident and making it my own in Lydia Bennet’s Story. Jane Austen mentions the following event in a few sentences, almost as an aside. I thought it would be fun to imagine just what happened when [...]

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A Calendar for Pride and Prejudice

It is thought that Jane Austen first started writing a version of Pride and Prejudice as early as 1796. After her father’s unsuccessful attempt to have it published the following year she put it aside, revising it later and eventually having the joy of seeing it published in 1813. Many people have tried to work [...]

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Lydia Bennet from Pride and Prejudice

In Lydia’s imagination, a visit to Brighton comprised every possibility of earthly happiness. She saw, with the creative eye of fancy, the streets of that gay bathing place covered with officers. She saw herself the object of attention to tens and to scores of them at present unknown. She saw all the glories of [...]

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Happy Father’s Day and a review for Lydia Bennet’s Story from Jane Austen in Vermont

Happy Father’s Day! It’s a beautiful day here in the UK for Father’s Day and I hope all fathers everywhere have a lovely day. Jane Austen’s father always encouraged her writing, buying her a writing desk and a special notebook in which to write early compositions. He inscribed one of them with the following words [...]

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My Writing Life

I’m very excited at the moment because my second novel, another Jane Austen sequel is almost finished. I think I’ve got about another week’s work to do on it and it will be completed. I normally work quite slowly, spending a lot of time thinking as much as writing, but when I get to this [...]

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Jane Austen at the seaside

Summer is almost upon us though perhaps you wouldn’t know it by the rainy weather at present! Regency seaside resorts became very popular in the late 1700’s/ early 1800’s. Jane Austen loved Lyme Regis and even used the town in her book Persuasion. Here are a couple of extracts from a letter she sent to [...]

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