Oct 29, 2023 | Eighteenth Century Inns
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...
Oct 22, 2023 | Eighteenth Century Inns
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...
Oct 18, 2023 | Eighteenth Century Inns
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...
Oct 17, 2023 | Eighteenth Century Inns
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...
Sep 30, 2023 | Eighteenth Century Inns, Uncategorized
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...
Sep 20, 2023 | Eighteenth Century Inns
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...
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