What Kitty Did Next

Confessions of a word nerd

I’ve been reading the dictionary again! Checking the etymology of words that want to wander into my prose, set in Regency England. It is...

Bear essentials for the likes of Mr Darcy

One of the more intriguing things I discovered when researching What Kitty Did Next (published by Red Door Books on 28 June, in just...

If only Jane Austen had had a laptop!

As I sit tapping away on my keyboard, with the ability to save and delete, cut and paste, move paragraphs back and forth, I cannot...

Why is it called a wedding breakfast? Jane Austen knew...

With only six sleeps before the upwardly mobile Ms Meghan Markle marries Prince Harry, speculation about all things royal wedding grows...

If Meghan married Darcy

If Meghan Markle had married a “single man in possession of a good fortune” back in the early 19th century, she might have escaped a lot...

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