The rights of Georgian wives
Frankly, they had few rights. Marriage settlements among the wealthy certainly ensured the future of a new wife. On widowhood, she would...
Georgian woman paid dear for their mistakes
I've talked about the plight of fallen woman before. But how about the runaways? Those romantic young girls who fall in love with the...
Getting away with comedy
Although there are usually comic moments in my historical romances, it's another thing writing an out and out comedy. I had this problem...
Georgian and Regency women had it tough
I've never been satisfied only to write about heroines endowed with social position or rank. A sucker for fairytales, I love the...
The Georgian gentleman’s Little Black Book
Women who fell from grace in the 18th Century had few options open to them. Get married with speed was top of the list. Preferably to the...
HEY, WHERE DID MY WRITING MOJO GO?
Operations, especially abdominal, tend to knock the body for six. I know mine did when I had two, one op following the other within a...
Welcome to my World
Huge picture hats and charming straw bonnets; lashings of lace and tulle; yards of gathered floating muslin and bosoms upthrust by...
