Jane Austen on Film and the Flete Estate

This is a photo of my daughter enjoying the beach on the Flete Estate.I’ve just finished writing another Jane Austen Sequel, Mrs Brandon’s Invitation, inspired by Sense and Sensibility. I loved the Emma Thompson/Ang Lee adaptation which was made in 1995 and so when I had a special birthday looming on the horizon, I [...]

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Lizzy Bennet, Lakes and Peaks!

This first photo shows a view from an upstairs room at Brantwood where I was lucky enough to stay a few years ago. My husband and I were working on a project to do with the house which was Ruskin’s home in his latter years. The lovely window has an incredible view which looks out [...]

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Dido Elizabeth Belle

This painting of two young girls depicted at Kenwood House which was their home is of Dido Elizabeth Belle and her half cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray.Dido was born around 1763, the daughter of an African slave and Sir John Lindsay, a Captain in the Royal Navy. Lindsay sent Dido to live with his uncle, William [...]

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A Review for Lydia Bennet’s Story from Foreword Magazine

I came across this article on the net from Foreword Magazine. I was very excited to see the new version of Lydia Bennet’s Story given a mention.
HAPPILY EVER AFTER?
Of writers of classic literature, few are more beloved than Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte. Their witty, mysterious, proud, and strange characters stay with readers like [...]

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A Young Lady dressed as a Redcoat! That’s What!

Phoebe Hessel was born in Stepney in 1713. A colourful character in and around Brighton in her later life, she enthralled passers by with her tales of being a soldier in her youth. Phoebe disguised herself as a man and enlisted in the British army to be with her lover Samuel Golding according to the [...]

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