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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