Castle Combe, a pretty English village

I had a lovely time in Castle Combe recently, a pretty village some 12 miles out of Bath. We were very lucky on the day I chose to go with my camera – there are often a lot of tourists, but I think the extremely hot weather that day had kept people inside and in [...]

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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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My Love Affair Continues…

Regular visitors to my blog know that I have a long-standing love affair with the City of Bath. We know that Jane Austen lived here from 1801-1806 and that her feelings about the place may well have been very mixed as time went on. I can feel a whole other blogpost coming on about Austen’s [...]

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A Favourite Walk in Bath, photos from my album

One of my favourite walks in Bath starts at Jane Austen’s house at no. 4 Sydney Place and takes me through the gardens opposite where we know our favourite novelist walked. Although the gardens do not look the same as they did in Jane’s day, they are still a lovely place for a stroll or [...]

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The Old White Hart Inn, Bath, and Jane Austen’s Persuasion

I’ve read Jane Austen’s Persuasion many times, but it was only recently that I read this passage and puzzled over it. Anne…hastened forward to the White Hart, to see again the friends and companions of the last autumn, with an eagerness of goodwill which many associations contributed to form. They found Mrs. Musgrove and her [...]

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Bath, the Pump Room, and Catherine Morland

I’m in Bath today, and whenever I’m here, my thoughts turn to Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. My painting of the Pump Room was inspired by Jane Austen’s letters – as a young girl Jane came to Bath and stayed with her aunt and uncle Leigh-Perrot – I feel sure her first reactions to [...]

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The City of Bath at night

More photos of beautiful Bath at night during the Christmas season. I hope you enjoy them! In no particular order: Chandeliers in Union Street Jane Austen Centre, Gay Street Decorations down a side street Great Pulteney Street Beau Nash’s House, Saw Close Thai Balcony Restaurant, Saw Close Theatre Royal, Saw Close Pump Rooms, Stall Street [...]

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Bath at Christmas

I thought I’d share a few photos of Bath at Christmas starting off with Laura Place and Pulteney Bridge. As you can see it was a very rainy day, which immediately brings to mind one of my favourite couples, Captain Frederick Wentworth and Anne Elliot, from Jane Austen’s Persuasion – It was beginning to rain [...]

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Pictures from Bath!

I love going to Bath as you’ve probably gathered if you read my blog – it’s a bit like Jane Austen fairyland for me. From the minute you see the signs on the motorway and make the turning onto the winding, leafy road which descends into Bath itself, I always feel as if I’ve left [...]

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Photos from my album!

North Parade, Bath, which was used for Mrs Smith’s lodgings in the 1995 Persuasion adaptation. The view down the long drive to the gorgeous house, Luckington Court, which was used in the 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Thatched cottages in Lacock – the pretty village used in the 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.

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