Pictures of Lyme, and a new book!

My little trip to Lyme in February seems so long ago now, and I’m always dreaming about the next time I might be able to go. As I’ve managed to break my hip – not by jumping off the Cobb, I hasten to add – I can’t see I shall be able to go for [...]

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Laurel Ann Nattress: You Pierce My Soul Persuasion: A Look at Jane Austen’s Most Romantic Novel

 It’s my great pleasure to welcome my guest, Laurel Ann Nattress, editor of Jane Austen Made Me Do It to the blog today. Everyone knows Laurel Ann from her wonderful blog, Austenprose, and now she’s just become a published author! Over to you, Laurel Ann. You Pierce My Soul Persuasion: A Look at Jane Austen’s Most [...]

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Jane Austen Made Me Do It – New Website!

I think I may have mentioned how proud I am to be a part of this fantastic collection of short stories, but if that wasn’t enough, now I am thrilled to tell you about a new website which is up and running to celebrate all things about this new book. Laurel Ann Nattress, the wonderful [...]

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Pride and Prejudice, or is it Mansfield Park?

I found this really funny – hope it brightens up your Monday!

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Persuasion, a film location, and a reading

Last Thursday evening I was invited along by Helen Wilkinson of P and P tours to come and do a reading of Willoughby’s Return to a group she was leading on their Persuasion/Sense and Sensibility tour. Most exciting was the fact that the house I was to be giving my talk in was the very [...]

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Persuasion, a film location, and a reading

Last Thursday evening I was invited along by Helen Wilkinson of P and P tours to come and do a reading of Willoughby’s Return to a group she was leading on their Persuasion/Sense and Sensibility tour. Most exciting was the fact that the house I was to be giving my talk in was the very [...]

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Mystery Solved! Why Jane Austen favoured Captain Wentworth’s name – amongst others.

This is in response to a post I blogged about earlier – I was doing some research on names and discovered the village of Wentworth in South Yorkshire where the aristocratic families of Wentworth, Watson, Woodhouse and Fitzwilliam ruled over the area. As these names are all connected with characters in Jane Austen’s novels, I [...]

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Fitzwilliam, Wentworth, Watson and Woodhouse – Jane’s characters have more in common than you might think!

I’ve been very busy writing a new book which always involves a certain amount of research. I was looking for a surname for a character of my own; it had to be linked to the name Wentworth in some way, so I decided to put in a search in google. I hit upon a site [...]

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Mystery Solved! Why Jane Austen favoured Captain Wentworth’s name – amongst others.

This is in response to a post I blogged about earlier – I was doing some research on names and discovered the village of Wentworth in South Yorkshire where the aristocratic families of Wentworth, Watson, Woodhouse and Fitzwilliam ruled over the area. As these names are all connected with characters in Jane Austen’s novels, I [...]

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Fitzwilliam, Wentworth, Watson and Woodhouse – Jane’s characters have more in common than you might think!

I’ve been very busy writing a new book which always involves a certain amount of research. I was looking for a surname for a character of my own; it had to be linked to the name Wentworth in some way, so I decided to put in a search in google. I hit upon a site [...]

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