Dec 26, 2023 | Eighteenth Century Inns
Hello and Happy Christmas. It’s Boxing Day which, as all Jane Austen fans will know, did not exist in her day being a Victorian invention. Instead, in Georgian times, servants would traditionally be given the day off to either rest or travel to visit their families....
Dec 15, 2023 | Eighteenth Century Inns
I discovered the following just to be able to write that a character in my Pride & Prejudice sequel, ‘Easter At Netherfield: Darcy’s Dice With Fate’ set in 1799, thought that another character had lately been elsewhere than in England because that other had...
Nov 30, 2023 | Eighteenth Century Inns
In Easter At Netherfield, the second Pride & Prejudice sequel in my Elizabeth Bennet series, Elizabeth wishes to accompany Colonel Fitzwilliam and her friend Harriet Layham to Cambridge. The Colonel and Harriet wish to speak to Harriet’s parents who are staying at...
Nov 10, 2023 | Eighteenth Century Inns
My Pride & Prejudice sequel, ‘Menace At Pemberley’ set in 1798/1799, includes incidents of dog-poisoning and I wanted to find out what means of diagnosis and, if relevant, treatment would have been available. My husband was convinced that someone of Darcy’s...
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...
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