Lydia finds love at Hallowe’en

I wrote this short piece for a guest blog today on Serena’s blogspot Savvy, Verse and Wit. I am grateful also to her for a review for Lydia Bennet’s Story, which you can read by clicking here
October 31st, 1801
“I’ll bet you’ll see your true love by midnight,” said our maid Mary, and she looked so [...]

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Inns in Regency England

Fiction set in the Regency era often has an incident or event taking place in a country inn in England. The first thirty years of the nineteenth century saw the growth of such hostelries as the rise of coach and post-chaise travel expanded and peaked.
I really like to read contemporary descriptions which help inspiration for [...]

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Chilly winds, Snow and a Warm Review from Ex Libris

The weather here in the UK has been getting colder with freezing winds blowing down from the north. Last night was most unusual for this time of year as autumn was quickly ousted by winter. Last night we had lightning, a thunderstorm, followed by snow – huge, fat flakes of twirling ice hurtling to the [...]

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Lydia’s Big Adventure!

It is an extraordinary thought for me to contemplate, that an idea for a book which started in my head here in High Barnet, England, and was transmitted by e-mail ‘over the ether’ should now be sitting on shelves in book form all over the United States. You can imagine how much a new writer [...]

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The Bingley Sisters of Netherfield

Lydia Bennet’s Online Diary.
At this time of the year I always read Pride and Prejudice and I thought it would be fun to see what Lydia is thinking about all the goings on at Longbourn. Lydia’s online diary starts just before Mr Bingley arrives and finishes where my novel, Lydia Bennet’s Story, begins.
Tuesday, October 27th [...]

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Jane Austen’s house at Chawton and another painting of Jane

Here is another painting of Jane Austen which I’d forgotten about and came across whilst looking for something else, inspired, as ever, by Cassandra’s sketch. The little painting that Cassandra produced is very delicate when seen close to and I have attempted a similar effect. However, Cassandra’s brushwork was so fine that I found I [...]

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Lydia and Kitty Bennet’s Favourite things

Lydia Bennet’s Online Diary.
At this time of the year I always read Pride and Prejudice and I thought it would be fun to see what Lydia is thinking about all the goings on at Longbourn. Lydia’s online diary starts just before Mr Bingley arrives and finishes where my novel, Lydia Bennet’s Story, begins.
Friday, October 23rd [...]

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Gossip from the Ball at Meryton

Lydia Bennet’s Online Diary.
At this time of the year I always read Pride and Prejudice and I thought it would be fun to see what Lydia is thinking about all the goings on at Longbourn. Lydia’s online diary starts just before Mr Bingley arrives and finishes where my novel, Lydia Bennet’s Story, begins.
Tuesday, October 20th
Charlotte [...]

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Interview With Jane Odiwe, Author of LYDIA BENNET’S STORY (With Giveaway!) From Anna at Diary of an Eccentric Blogspot

Interview With Jane Odiwe, Author of LYDIA BENNET’S STORY (With Giveaway!) From Anna at Diary of an Eccentric
Yesterday I reviewed Lydia Bennet’s Story by Jane Odiwe, which fills in some gaps in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and gives readers a glimpse of how things fared between Lydia Bennet and George Wickham. It was an [...]

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A Review for Lydia Bennet’s Story from Diary of an Eccentric Blogspot

I wouldn’t say I’m a huge Jane Austen fan, but I’ve read a few of her novels and enjoyed them. Of course, Pride & Prejudice is a favorite of mine, so when Danielle Jackson from Sourcebooks gave me the chance to read Lydia Bennet’s Story by Jane Odiwe, I couldn’t say no.
Lydia Bennet has always [...]

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