The Value of Eighteenth Century Money

The Value of Eighteenth Century Money

Hello all. So a few more words about the research I’ve carried out for ‘Intrigue At Longbourn’ (prequel to Pride & Prejudice) and ‘Menace At Pemberley’ (sequel). I found it very useful, particularly for the prequel, to use a currency converter so as to be able to...
Eighteenth Century Legal Practice

Eighteenth Century Legal Practice

As a formerly practising English solicitor of several decades, when writing ‘Intrigue At Longbourn’, set in the late 1790s, I relied largely on my own experiences from when I started out in the law fifty (yes fifty!) or more years ago. In the novel, which is a P&P...
Was There An Assembly Rooms At Meryton?

Was There An Assembly Rooms At Meryton?

In the Authors Note and Sources to my first Pride & Prejudice derivative, Intrigue At Longbourn, I speculated that the fictional town of Meryton might have been based on the town of Harpenden, citing an article entitled ‘The Probable  Location of “Longbourn” in...
The Gentleman’s Magazine

The Gentleman’s Magazine

It’s amazing the little snippets of information you find out when researching a novel. I’m working on my latest ‘Pride & Prejudice’ sequel, in my Elizabeth Bennet series entitled ‘Easter At Netherfield: Darcy’s Dice With Fate’. I was researching whether Mr Bennet...
Eighteenth century Flintlock pistols

Eighteenth century Flintlock pistols

As autumn takes hold in the East of England and summer holiday stays by and with family are over, once again there’s more time for writing. ‘Easter At Netherfield’, my second ‘Pride & Prejudice’ sequel is taking form. As I’ve said before, apart from the main...
The place of luck in novel writing

The place of luck in novel writing

Hello. This is my first blog attempted all on my own, so I hope it works! As I sit tapping away at the keyboard turning out more chapters of ‘Easter At Netherfield’, my next Pride & Prejudice sequel, I am conscious of the disorganised, unplanned way in which I...