A Lydia Bennet Moment! Jane Odiwe and Monica Fairview at the RNA Regency Day.

Jane Odiwe, Monica Fairview and the officers at the RNA day 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 [...]

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Eloping with Lydia Bennet and Mr Wickham!

If we are lucky, August is a time for holidays! In Regency times Brighton was a very popular and fashionable destination. Lydia is thrilled when she is invited by her friend Harriet to accompany the regiment to the seaside. Romances ‘abroad’ were just as likely then as they are now – Lydia falls hook, line [...]

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Competition Winner, a Mood Board, and an Extract from Lydia Bennet’s Story

The winner of the competition is Milka from Finland! Congratulations! I have e-mailed you, so if you can send me details of where to send your books they will be posted soon. I thought you might like to see one of the mood boards I created when I was writing Lydia Bennet’s Story. I always [...]

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Elizabeth Bennet sets off for London and Hunsford

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. Monday, March [...]

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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 the [...]

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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 the [...]

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Lydia’s Elopement – Another Exchange of Letters between Lydia and Lucy

Lydia, my dear, I have had the most awful time keeping your secret. If I do not reveal your whereabouts with Mr Wickham, my papa threatens to cut off my pin money and send me packing to live with my Aunt Beatrice – who, I am sure, you will hardly recall, for she is so [...]

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Lydia’s Elopement – Another Exchange of Letters between Lydia and Lucy

Lydia, my dear, I have had the most awful time keeping your secret. If I do not reveal your whereabouts with Mr Wickham, my papa threatens to cut off my pin money and send me packing to live with my Aunt Beatrice – who, I am sure, you will hardly recall, for she is so [...]

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Another letter from Lucy to Lydia!

My dearest Lydia,

 La, I meant to write sooner, but the social whirl has me thinking of nothing but dresses and balls and handsome officers! To be sure Brighton is nothing like London at this time of year, but one would never know it for all the parties and dances we have been invited to [...]

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Another letter from Lucy to Lydia!

My dearest Lydia,

 La, I meant to write sooner, but the social whirl has me thinking of nothing but dresses and balls and handsome officers! To be sure Brighton is nothing like London at this time of year, but one would never know it for all the parties and dances we have been invited to [...]

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