Happy Easter! A new Blog, Chatsworth, and Lydia Bennet.

I’d like to wish you all a Happy Easter – I’m having a bit of a break from blogging to spend time with my family – I hope you all have a lovely holiday. This is quite a long post but one thing seemed to lead to another! I’m very busy writing another book at [...]

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Happy Easter! A new Blog, Chatsworth, and Lydia Bennet.

I’d like to wish you all a Happy Easter – I’m having a bit of a break from blogging to spend time with my family – I hope you all have a lovely holiday. This is quite a long post but one thing seemed to lead to another! I’m very busy writing another book at [...]

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Photos from my album! Chatsworth, Pride and Prejudice and Mr Darcy’s Secret.

Here, for your delight is an extract from Pride and Prejudice with accompanying photos of Chatsworth! The weather was lovely up until the time I got the camera out – wouldn’t you know. My sister and I visited Derbyshire last year all in pursuit of research – Mr Darcy’s Secret is my next book which [...]

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The Dining Room at Haddon, Pride and Prejudice 2005

The dining room was used for a scene at the inn at Lambton in the 2005 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. It is quite a small room which would have been used by the family for their private quarters. The plaster ceiling dates from the early 1500s and is decorated with a Tudor rose and [...]

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Pride and Prejudice, 2005, Haddon Hall Chapel

The chapel at Haddon Hall was used in the 2005 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen. It’s a marvellous example of an early chapel with separate seating for the gentry, wall frescoes, and 15th century painted glass. The south aisle dates from the 12th century and was widened during the [...]

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Haddon Hall, Derbyshire, a contender for Pemberley?

As they walked across the lawn towards the river, Elizabeth turned back to look again; her uncle and aunt stopped also: and while the former was conjecturing as to the date of the building, the owner of it himself suddenly came forward from the road which led behind it to the stables. They were within [...]

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What are Men to Rocks and Mountains?!

In the last of my posts on Chatsworth I thought you’d like to see some of the views of the gardens. It was difficult to choose, I have so many photos, but I thought I’d tie these in with one or two passages from Jane Austen’s wonderful Pride and Prejudice. “We have not quite determined [...]

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Looking Up at Chatsworth and Yummy Meringues!

When walking around Chatsworth there is so much to see that it’s difficult to know where to look first. In the painted hall alone which is the first major space you encounter there are statues and paintings galore all vying for your attention. Most incredible is the painted ceiling showing the apotheosis of Julius Caesar [...]

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Looking up at Chatsworth and Yummy Meringues!

When walking around Chatsworth there is so much to see that it’s difficult to know where to look first. In the painted hall alone which is the first major space you encounter there are statues and paintings galore all vying for your attention. Most incredible is the painted ceiling showing the apotheosis of Julius Caesar [...]

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‘The Duchess’ Costumes at Chatsworth!

I thought you might like to see some of the photos I took at Chatsworth of the exhibition they have on about Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. As well as personal items and letters there are costumes from the film ‘The Duchess’ which stars Keira Knightley as Georgiana, Ralph Fiennes as the Duke and Dominic Cooper [...]

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