tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19911822729364416682024-02-19T16:00:20.435+11:00Historical HeartsHistorical Heartshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05621335574480820985noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991182272936441668.post-64929825741104821662012-10-29T09:00:00.000+11:002012-10-29T16:28:41.008+11:00Regency Tidbits - Shoes<br />
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<span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Shoes! We love them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of us see shoes as the ultimate accessory
and collect them with reckless abandon. Some of us would rather wear <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">comfortable</i> rather than <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fashionable </i>shoes. a low sensible heel anyone?) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There is, however, something alluring about a shoe. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> There is no argument that they can make or break an outfit - or the budget. Our feet are one of our most important limbs. We depend on them and therefore we should protect them, make them look good and give them a good massage every now and then. </span>We are lucky that we live in a time where
shoes are mass produced and available to all socio-economic groups. In the
Regency period, this was not always the case.</span></span></div>
<span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Shoes were often made to measure. It took
time to make them, they were expensive and they often did not last long.
Because of this there are very few examples of regency shoes in museums and
private collections. The ones that do survive show us that women and men have
not really changed that much in terms of the humble shoe. Often a pattern, or
outline, was taken of the person’s feet. The shoemaker would keep these and use
them over and over to make shoes in that person’s size and shape.</span></span><br />
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shoes</strong></span> </span><br />
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into the Regency period a woman’s shoe had quite a high heel and was highly
decorated with fabric. It was quite a solid shoe. Later the heel disappeared to
nearly nothing and or disappeared altogether.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Today, we have shoes that are similar to regency shoes in the Ballet
flat. </span><br />
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In the Regency this shoe would have been for dancing. It gave little protection. No wonder our heroines are
constantly worried about getting their toes crushed during a dance with a
clumsy gentleman.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shoe scene from the movie - Sense and Sensibility</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-AU">When in the country, a Regency woman may
have worn boots or half boots for her recreational jaunts around the wilderness
of her country estate or that trip into the local village for ribbons and such. Similarly, the servants would have worn sturdier shoes
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<span lang="EN-AU"><span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Ever more popular during the Regency was the boot. The high-top, the Wellington and the Hessian boot were all good sturdy footwear. The mark of a well-groomed gentleman was to ensure that his boots were polished to perfection. A job his valet would have spent quite a bit of his time over. A good valet would take much pride in making sure his employer was well dressed and this included his footwear.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In the present, the types of shoes available to men and women is almost overwhelming. Sports shoes, slip on shoes (such as flip-flops), flats, heels and boots give us a great deal of choice and comfort levels. Still, there is something about the perfect shoe. One that does not pinch or give you blisters. One that you can wear all day and looks amazing. I'll let you know if I ever find that perfect pair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more information on how shoes were actually made in this time see this link below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/fashionable-shoes-of-the-18th-and-19th-century-and-how-they-were-made/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/fashionable-shoes-of-the-18th-and-19th-century-and-how-they-were-made/</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Sources: </span><a href="http://www.songsmyth.com/menday.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">http://www.songsmyth.com/menday.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991182272936441668.post-50643372688134105402012-10-22T11:16:00.000+11:002012-10-22T11:18:06.396+11:00Let no Man put Asunder - Introduction to the Laws of Divorce<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Following on from my earlier posts on the <a href="http://historicalhearts.blogspot.com.au/2012_05_01_archive.html">Laws of Succession</a> and the <a href="http://historicalhearts.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/potted-history-of-laws-of-marriage.html">Laws of Marriage</a>, this month is an introduction to the English Laws of Divorce. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Even today, marriage is one of the most important contracts two people
can make it, but unlike many other contracts, it was, until very recently,
extremely difficult to get out of. It is
only in my lifetime that divorce has become the “out clause” we all know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Interestingly in the early days of Christian England,
divorce by consent or for adultery or desertion was not unknown. It was only
the Medieval canonists who, holding to a
strict interpretation of the scriptures, decreed that the bonds of matrimony
were indissoluble during the lives of the parties. The words of the old Book of Common Prayer
marriage ceremony read “<i>Let those whom
God has put together let no man put asunder</i>”. Church courts would only grant divorce on the
ground that the marriage had been void from the beginning. Eg. A want of
consent to the marriage, precontract, consanguinity, affinity and impotence at
the time of marriage. </span></div>
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from Liber Floridus 12th century</td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Consent – Want of consent could be evidenced not
only by duress but the age of the parties. The age of “consent” was fixed at 7
years old but until the age of puberty (12 for girls and 14 for boys – this minimum
age was raised to 16 for both parties as recently as 1929) either party could
avoid</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">the marriage. Parental consent was
a requirement for the marriage of minors, although if the marriage had been solemnized
and the parents raised no objection the marriage held.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Consanguinity and Affinity– A Table of Kindred
and Affinity formed part of the Book of Common Prayer and laid down those who
could not marry. It was based on sound genetic propositions (eg a man may not
marry his mother). Affinity is even more remote – it implied a relationship
through marriage or carnal connection eg if a man fornicated with X’s sister he
was forbidden from marrying X. Again some of the more remote affinities were
only removed within the last 100 years (see the Deceased Wife’s Sister’s
Marriage Act of 1907)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Impotence (failure to consummate). Incurable impotency had to be proved and might
arise from malformation or invincible frigidity. A person found to be incurably
impotent (<i>inhabilis ab intitio</i>) was not free to marry again but frigidity was
no bar to a subsequent marriage!</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Divorce <i>a mensa et
thoro</i> (from board and bed). The feeling that divorce ought to be permitted
in the case of matrimonial wrongs, such as adultery led to the development of a
form of judicial separation whereby the parties, although remaining
indissolubly united, were permitted to live apart (but not remarry. It could be
granted for misconduct such as adultery, cruelty and sodomy and an innocent
wife could be awarded alimony for her maintenance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Surely the most famous divorce in history was that of Henry
VIII and his wife Catherine of Aragon. Under the laws of affinity, Henry had
required a papal dispensation to marry his brother’s wife. When Henry sought to put the marriage aside
on the grounds that the papal dispensation was ultra vires, the Queen claimed
that her marriage to Prince Arthur had never been lawful as it had tot been
consummated. Only when Henry had the
control of the church in his grasp did he “divorce” Catherine on the grounds
that the marriage was void. His subsequent marriage to Ann Boleyn was also
declared void although no reasons were officially given but he may have argued
pre-contract or affinity (through his own relationship with Mary Boleyn). The
effect was to bastardise Elizabeth. He divorced Ann of Cleves on the grounds of
her precontract with Francis of Lorraine, incapacity and duress (sic!). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The legacy of Henry’s manipulation of the Canon Law and the
English Reformation was a revision of the laws surrounding divorce. Archbishop Cranmer proposed full dissolution
of marriage for good cause (such as adultery, cruelty and desertion) but his
proposals were never implemented. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Through his actions, Henry had bastardised both his
daughters but both Mary and Elizabeth passed Acts of Parliament reinstating
their status and thereby demonstrating that the civil Parliament could
interfere with the canon law. In 1548
the Marquis of Northhampton sought to divorce and remarry. The validity of his
second marriage was upheld by Act of Parliament. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In 1670 divorce on the grounds of adultery was given effect
by statute when Lord Roos’ marriage was dissolved and he was permitted to
remarry but adultery remained the only ground for divorce and in order to
obtain it the husband to first bring an action to prove the adultery at common
law, then obtain a divorce <i>a mensa et thoro</i> from the Ecclesiastical court on
the grounds of that adultery and finally petition the House of Lords. The
parliamentary procedure was long winded and expensive but it was invoked about
300 times during the 18<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> centuries. It was
exclusive to the wealthy classes and permitted only for male petitioners. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The only remedy still available for the more lowly classes
was the dissolution on the basis of the marriage being void (<i>a vinculo matrimonii</i>) or legal
separation (<i>a mensa et thoro</i>). The
institution of civil marriage in 1836 removed the ecclesiastical objections to
remarriage after divorce but did nothing to facilitate divorce itself. Reform came in 1857 with the establishment of
the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes which abolished the divorce jurisdiction
of the church courts. All it did was improve the machinery for obtaining a
divorce. The only ground for divorce remained adultery and in the case of a
wife petitioner, cruelty and desertion had to be proved as well. The abuse of the Victorian divorce court by
society families became a scandal; formal evidence of adultery was frequently
provided with little scrutiny! In the twenty years from 1867 to 1887 the number
of divorces rose from 130 to 372.
Compare that with the USA where divorces, under a different legal
system, in the same period rose from
9,937 to 25,535.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was not until 1935 that true reform in the shape of A.P
Herbert’s Act came about. Divorce on the
grounds of cruelty and desertion (for three years) were included. Wives had the same rights as their
husbands. The Church of England responded by legislating that divorced persons
should not be allowed to remarry in the Church. “No fault” divorce or divorce on
the grounds of “irretrievable breakdown of marriage” only came into existence
in the 1960s and 1970s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>And to end on a personal note, in the late 1920s my own grandmother ran off with another
man. She was in the terms of the day, a “bolter” (a term familiar to those who
have read Love in A Cold Climate). Although she was the defaulting party my
grandfather, being a gentleman, ‘took the blame’. A hotel room in Brighton was hired and my
grandfather seen to enter it in the company of a woman who was not his wife
(thus proving adultery). The divorce obtained, my grandmother did remarry
(twice in fact…everyone should have a scandalous grandparent). She was not
permitted to remarry in the Church (even if she had wished to do so), nor I believe, permitted to take communion!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Source: An Introduction to Legal History J.H. Baker/Osborn's Law Dictionary</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Alison's latest book, <a href="http://www.alisonstuart.com/gather-the-bones.html">GATHER THE BONES,</a> is now available in print as well as digital.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I take my characters in <b>A Baron in Her Bed - The Spies of Mayfair Book One</b> to the opera, and found it fascinating to research. Here's a taste of what I discovered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Opera and drama could only be found in London at limited
venues. Drury Lane and Covent Garden had the monopoly on plays and opera in
English, explicitly granted by royal patent. The Kings theatre, Haymarket <span> </span>which had no special royal connection or license,
remained the dominant presenter of opera throughout Austen’s lifetime, though
it’s supremacy was challenged in the 1790s by the more conveniently located Pantheon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The audience was composed mostly of the aristocracy, the
gentry and the people of means for the ticket prices were far higher than at
the theatres. Boxes, which held four to six people, were reserved, but seats in
the orchestra were not, and those in line got the best seats; wealthier patrons
often sent their footmen ahead to hold seats for them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While waiting for the opera to start, people could visit the
coffee room, talk w3ith friends, scan the audience for famous faces, or buy a
book from the “Fruit Woman” for 1s. 6d. which contained the cast and the
libretto. Once the opera commenced all activity was meant to cease, but many
continued to move about and indulge in conversation. Few patrons could speak
Italian and the King’s Theatre could not present its performances in English. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Opera was only performed during the winter when members of the
ton were in town. During summer the wealthy repaired to their country homes and
the seaside. Singers then toured the country performing in provincial towns. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Female performers were seen as glorified prostitutes and
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dorothea Jordan, had a long-running and much-publicized
affair with the duke of Clarence, bearing him ten children. (Jane Austen saw
her perform at Covent Garden in 1814. One satirical cartoon shows her in her
bedroom, gazing adoringly at a duchess’ coronet, which she hopes someday to
wear by marrying her lover. A map on the wall purports to show the route from “Strolling
Lane” (i.e. prostitution) through “Old Drury Common” all the way to “Derbyshire
Peak.” A genealogical chart of the nobility lies on her dressing table, and her
bed-hangings are crowned by a Phrygian cap, symbol of the French Revolution.
The latter is intended to ridicule her pretensions to nobility; as a common
woman, let alone an actress, she should know her place.</span></div>
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temptation to climb to the top of the social scale were exempted from the
popular prejudice against performing women. Sarah Siddons, who was generally
well respected, is a notable example, but those who seemed to be using their
visibility as a means to wealth and comfort were strongly stigmatized. The
situation was worse for those without stardom to protect them, and it was worst
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<span style="font-size: large;">Source: <i>All Things Austen - An Encyclopedia of Austen's World Volume II</i> </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB19KUmTOwt0K7SJKLJxYOCrAW5SR_hkttLMMciCySlpI-8N6FkFeqpv_ySCBJtIMKBS9IN3MdHZm1uvpgTj2kr4UfqvOpEocadRoP00jbTfp4Bbak8BzfepQEfcgRVGoxmAlYw8n2pt7w/s1600/Edinburgh+009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB19KUmTOwt0K7SJKLJxYOCrAW5SR_hkttLMMciCySlpI-8N6FkFeqpv_ySCBJtIMKBS9IN3MdHZm1uvpgTj2kr4UfqvOpEocadRoP00jbTfp4Bbak8BzfepQEfcgRVGoxmAlYw8n2pt7w/s320/Edinburgh+009.JPG" width="213" /></a>For many years the dream of visiting this great city had been a deeply held passion. But once there I was amazed how all the books I’d read about Edinburgh - its magnificent buildings and history - came flooding back and had me visiting all the places I longed to see.</div>
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Who can forget the scenes in the Outlander series created by Diana Gabaldon about Jamie and Claire! Images of the printing shop, the pubs and even the brothel come alive while walking down the streets and ducking into the allies on either side. Let alone Holyrood palace (House). Since coming home and reading Stephanie Laurens, The Capture of the Earl of Glencrae I can picture the buildings and the streets without difficulty. </div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_i67T5B9BXAs-P40uNPKo35UXb95g2QksjiidnTccUbyzQ7M11a9FzxS5ZveE6dXlncJ9U-ZuulQt45jC3NCCaLCWJPaB9BHqnm54_Lg60JxM0qdcUsCMQEvZkx483zRpwy881tpy_r5y/s1600/Edinburgh+012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_i67T5B9BXAs-P40uNPKo35UXb95g2QksjiidnTccUbyzQ7M11a9FzxS5ZveE6dXlncJ9U-ZuulQt45jC3NCCaLCWJPaB9BHqnm54_Lg60JxM0qdcUsCMQEvZkx483zRpwy881tpy_r5y/s320/Edinburgh+012.JPG" width="213" /></a>The streets and buildings are grey but to me they do not appear dirty. Some see the city as a grubby and forever stormy place. But not I. The stone remains this colour on purpose, a reminder of the cities once industrial atmosphere. Attempts have been made to clean the stones but that would change the character of the city. So it remains dark and heavy grey, like storm clouds on the horizon. It’s a magical place that takes you back in time to remind you that there are ancient things in this wonderful world.</div>
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This was but a snap shot of what I saw, heard and learnt while in the great city of Edinburgh.<br />
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Historical Heartshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05621335574480820985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991182272936441668.post-80168019711756314132012-09-25T08:58:00.001+10:002012-09-25T09:23:26.891+10:00Where is London Bridge Now?<br />
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And when I visited the UK last year, one of my first experiences was discovering their bridges.<br />
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Excited to be on the famous Tower Bridge we went below to check out the engine room, where the huge steam engines are that operated the opening up of the bridge in the late 19th century.<br />
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Of course a lot of it went over my head, but Hubby was fascinated, him being a fitter and machinist and having done his apprenticeship working with steam engines and the like.<br />
I was more intrigued when we trolled the many rooms and read that the original London Bridge is no longer in UK. It is in the USA.<br />
Surprised? .... Yeah I know ... so was I. And for some absolutely unprofound, absolutely paranoyic reason, this bothered me. I mean I'm not even British ... lol<br />
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After grilling one of the helpful attendants at the Bridge Museum for as much info as they knew, I decided when I got home I would start digging about and this is more of what I found out. <br />
It seems that by 1962 the bridge was not sound enough for the increased traffic in London, so it was sold by the city of London and bought by Robert P. McCulloch.<br />
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The bridge was completed in 1971 and links an island in the lake to the main part of Lake Havasu City. Arizona.<br />
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If you want to know more interesting facts about this famous bridge popover and read another post on the London Bridge at this site:<br />
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Thanks to the staff at London Bridge and further info collected from Wikipedia:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> It seems extraordinary that less than two years after the end of the war there was already a tourist industry around the battlefields, but the clue comes from a little insert on the town of Ypres which describes it as the “Centre for English, French and American Pilgrims”. In this little leaflet are advertisements for “Touring Cars” (wreaths by arrangement “placed on graves and photographed”), Hotels bearing the names “The Splendid” and “Hotel Britannique”. A good cup of tea in three minutes can be obtained from the Patisserie and Tea Rooms of Me Ve Vandaele on the Grand Place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Michelin Guides are ubiquitous today and I have a small collection of the narrow green guides for parts of France I have visited. It began in 1900 just as the first automobiles were appearing on the roads of France. Two enterprising brothers, André and Edouard Michelin decided to produce a small guide, given free to motorists, listing petrol stations across France and information on where to get your vehicle repaired as well as crucial information on accommodation and meals. In 1904 the Guide went international, with the publication of the Michelin Guide Belgium. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Even ninety years after the last gun was silenced, the bodies of the missing were being discovered and a reinternment was occurring while we were there. I tried to imagine what it was like for the families of those young men who had no graveside to mourn and slowly the idea for Gather the Bones took shape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I had Paul’s war there on my desk. In that non descript little book I had the images of the battlefields, the trenches, the concrete machine gun posts but more importantly I had the pilgrimage. Evelyn, Charlie’s mother, has to see where her son died, to really believe he is dead. It was the Evelyns who bought the 1920 Michelin Guide, booked the Hotel Splendid, bought their wreath and in their hired touring car, laid their ghosts to rest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <br /> <br /><strong><em>Maggi Andersen</em></strong> is celebrating her latest release<br /><strong><span style="font-size: large;">A Baron in Her Bed</span></strong><br />Available now from<span style="color: black;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Baron-Her-Bed-Spies-Mayfair/dp/1908483342/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343781866&sr=1-1"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Amazon UK</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.knoxrobinsonpublishing.com/bindex.php?"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Knox Robinson Publishing</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> and</span><a href="http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Baron-Her-Bed-Maggi-Andersen/9781908483348"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">The Book Depository</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A Baron in Her Bed will be available at</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Short blurb: <em>London, 1816. A handsome baron. A faux betrothal. And Horatia's plan to join the London literary set takes a dangerous turn.</em></span></div>
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<strong><em>Alison Stuart</em></strong> is celebrating her latest release</div>
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Blurb: <em>Set in 1923 against a background of the Great War, grieving war widow, Helen Morrow and her husband’s cousin, the wounded and reclusive Paul are haunted not only by the horrors of the Great War but ghosts from another time and another conflict. A coded diary provides the clues to the mysterious disappearance of Paul’s great grandmother in 1812. As the desperate voice of the young woman reaches out to them from the pages, Paul and Helen are bound together in their search for answers, not only to the old mystery but also the circumstances surrounding the death of Helen’s husband at Passchandaele in 1917. As the two stories become entwined, Paul and Helen will not find peace until the mysteries are solved.</em></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">A Stolen Season</span></strong><br />
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HH Member <strong><em>Mary deHaas</em></strong> w/a <strong><em>Marianne Theresa</em></strong></div>
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Historical Heartshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05621335574480820985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991182272936441668.post-73976043110587126572012-09-10T06:00:00.000+10:002012-09-12T19:40:42.765+10:00My Scotland ~ Her Castles ~ A Little History cont' by Allison Butler<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In April I started a series about my first dream trip to
Scotland. This post is my next treasured memory as my husband and I continue
our journey ~<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After leaving the magnificent Caerlaverock Castle, we headed
west to Threave Island, situated on the river Dee 14km's from the burgh and
port of Kirkcudbright.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In medieval times, access to the island was either by boat from
the west side into the harbour or via the hazardous dog-legged ford at the
south end of the island. Today, you have to sit back, relax and allow the
ferryman to take you across. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Legend tells that Threave Island was the home of the ancient
rulers of Galloway a thousand and more years ago. Today there is no trace of
their fortress. The tall, forbidding tower house that now dominates the island
was built for Archibald Douglas, better known to history as Archibald 'The
Grim', soon after he became Lord of Galloway in 1369.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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see today. There are lumps and grassy bumps where the foundations of other
buildings lie buried.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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were likely to be. A great hall, guest lodgings with chapel, kitchens, bake
houses, brew houses, stables, workshops and yards. The conclusion drawn from
the artefacts and debris found was that this was once a thriving,
self-sufficient community boasting wood-turning, iron-smithing and
lead-smelting. They also made their own shoes and other leather items, spun
wool, maintained a good standard of animal husbandry, ate well and played board
games much as we do.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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immediate household of Black Douglas alone. It was a self-contained residence
fully capable, when the occasion demanded, of being defended by a modest number
of men temporarily stationed within its massive walls.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">No, that's not my husband playing
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By the time of his death at Threave in 1400, Archibald Douglas
was the most powerful magnate in southern Scotland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When James II took steps to overthrow the Black Douglases a half
century after Archibald's death, it was at Threave that the final act in the
drama unfolded. The island fortress withstood a two-month siege in the summer
of 1455 before the garrison surrendered. The Black Douglases were finally
destroyed, their estates forfeited.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Threave reverted to the Crown and thereafter played an
insignificant role in Scotland's history. Following the surrender of its
garrison to the Covenanters in 1640, the castle was partially dismantled and
the island abandoned.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The ruin was taken into state care shortly before World War I -
one of the first great ruined castles to be so protected.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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dropping by and I hope you'll return to see where we stop next in our Scottish
adventure ~<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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My very first historical novel <i>Scandal's Mistress </i>came out two weeks ago and so far I've been too busy to shamelessly self-promote. That's what this post is for!<br />
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Here's a taste and then I'll get to the ideas and stereotypes that made the book possible. <br />
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<em>London, 1805</em><br />
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Justin Trentham, third son of the Earl of Billington, is determined to get himself disowned from his cold and unloving family. Despite his numerous affairs with questionable women of the <em>ton,</em> his parents continue to be dismissive of his ploys, but Justin spots the perfect scandal in the form of a beautiful, exotic Italian opera singer...<br />
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Carmalina Belluccini refuses to become his mistress, despite being tempted by his charms. But after losing her singing voice, she finds herself destitute. She agrees to be Justin's mistress for one month, until she has enough money to return to her beloved Italy.<br />
She intends to keep their arrangement strictly business, but after witnessing Justin's vulnerable side, she finds herself falling more in love than in lust with him. Carmalina is having second thoughts about leaving England...but is their love strong enough to survive the scandal of the season?<br />
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I often get asked where I came up with the idea for Scandal's Mistress and I have to tell them I honestly can't remember. I do know that for a long time I have abhorred stereotypes be it person, time or thing and I love to step up on my soapbox and pooh, pooh those who like to put things in the square and refuse to see anything outside it. That's probably where the idea came from. Just because Carmalina is an Opera Singer, it does not make her a prostitute. Just because most of the women who trod the boards were, doesn't mean they all were. Right? Are you getting cranky alongside me here?<br />
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But since there are certain factual guidelines we have to follow when writing Regency, I had to make my Opera Singer different from the rest. Just because I feel as though not all singers were sluts, doesn't mean I can crack the mold and say it wasn't so. So I made Carmalina an Italian Opera Singer. Things were different in Italy. Then I stranded her in England and made her voice scratchy from the cold and soot. That's when things got really hard for her and she had to figure out where her next meal was going to come from if she couldn't sing for her supper. Enter Justin Trentham. The season's bad boy and scandal king. You'll have to read the story to see what happens next. I can tell you it has a twist you (hopefully) won't see coming and you may or may not cry (just a little bit).<br />
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Enjoy and thanks for popping by! <br />
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<i>Firstly an apology...I know I promised a post on the Laws of Divorce but a recent visit to the Melbourne Museum's current exhibition on <a href="http://museumvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/whatson/current-exhibitions/the-wonders-of-ancient-mesopotamia/">The Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia</a> (which is on until 7 October) combined with the release on September 3 of my new book, GATHER THE BONES, which coincidentally involves the 1922 discoveries of Ur, has led me in a different direction.</i></div>
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I have always been a closet archaeologist. In fact I was
so keen on the dream of becoming an archaeologist that I had obtained all the
information on enrolling in the London School of Archaeology when I finished
University. Not to be. I finished my legal qualification, met a man, got
married...and spent my life as a lawyer. Not surprisingly I ADORE programs like Time
Team. I don’t care if I am watching repeats or new episodes, every time a tiny
chunk of dried, black mud is identified
as a piece of Anglo Saxon Pottery from the kiln on the west side of the hill in
Chipping Leghorn, I feel a frisson of excitement. On my trips to England my
husband and I can now spot a piece of Roman Samian ware pottery at 50 metres.<br />
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At University I had studied Ancient History under an eccentric old professor who still wore his gown and whose name, sadly, I can no longer recall. He had a passion for Sumerian History which he inculcated in me. So it is not surprising that when I was casting around
for a suitable profession for the hero of GATHER THE BONES, Paul Morrow, he
became a frustrated archaeologist. I often wonder if authors tend to vent their
own frustrations on their characters, a sort of Munchausen by Proxy!</div>
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Despite Paul’s
classical education, he had been forced into the army, rather than take up a
scholarship at Oxford. Now, in 1923 (when my story is set), he works on the archaeological digs as the
expedition manager rather than an archaeologist. To be honest I invented Paul’s position with the expedition,
reasoning that someone had to organise the logisitics of an Expedition of this size and who better than an
impoverished former army officer? </div>
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The early 1920s were an extraordinary time in
archaeology. In Egypt, Carter had just opened the tomb of Tutankhamun and
elsewhere in the Middle East activity that had been suspended during the Great War
was recommencing. In Iraq (or Mesopotamia as it was still known) Charles Leonard Woolley had begun work on the excavations, near Basrah,
of a site that was to become known as the Royal Tombs at Ur. Some excavation
had already been done on the site in the early part of the century but it was
not until 1922 when the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania
launched a combined dig that serious excavation of the site began. </div>
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The digging season took place in the winter months to make the most of the cooler weather and Woolley commenced work in November 1922. He commenced the dig with two
large trenches near the ruins of a Ziggurat and within a week Trench A had
already produced extraordinary evidence of high status burials with the
discovery of gold items. Trench B produced more prosaic buildings and pottery.
Feeling he lacked the experience to proceed with a full scale burials
excavation, Woolley closed down Trench A and work continued on Trench B which
revealed the important temple of E-Un-Mah and the beginnings of a massive wall.
Time ran out and in Spring, the dig closed down and Woolley and his team
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The excavations at Ur went on until 1934 and over that period the
most extraordinary finds in the history of archaeology were unearthed. <span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">A total of about 1,850 burials were
uncovered, including 16 that were described as “royal tombs” containing many
valuable artefacts, including the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white;">Standard of Ur and the Lamb in the Thicket. Most of the royal tombs were dated to about 2600 BC. The
finds included the unlooted tomb of a queen thought to be Queen<span class="apple-converted-space"> Puabi</span></span> (<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">the name is known from a cylinder<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white;">seal<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>found in the tomb, although there were two other different
and unnamed seals found in the tomb). Many other people had been buried with
her, in a form of human sacrifice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I did give Paul something useful to do in
translating cuneiform tablets. Cuneiform had been deciphered by the end of the
nineteenth century and the clay tablets are eloquent in their insight into
Sumerian life. In my research for the book I came across the story of the boy
who didn’t want to go to school that Paul tells Alice. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Woolley with Max Mallowan and Agatha Christie 1931</td></tr>
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Finally a literary connection...one of the archaeologists who worked on the later excavations with Woolley was Max Mallowan, husband of Agatha Christie. Christie would accompany her husband for the dig season and, of course, her book (possibly my favourite of her books) MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA is based on her experiences on the digs.</div>
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If you are interested in the excavations at Ur, visit <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/article_index/u/ur.aspx">http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/article_index/u/ur.aspx</a>
and, of course, good old Wikipedia is abounding in articles. For my research I
went back to the bookshelves and dug out my old text book from University
days...The Sumerians by Samuel Noah Kramer, one of the definitive works on the
subject.</div>Alison Stuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07101217971756114754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991182272936441668.post-11169340323323092012012-08-06T07:00:00.000+10:002012-08-07T23:28:13.860+10:00The Georgian Theatre Royal ~ by Cheryl Leigh<br />
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Richmond, North Yorkshire, is a delightful, wondrous experience and akin to
stepping back in time. Theatres often burned down during the eighteenth century,
but this Georgian gem of a playhouse survived with most of its original
features intact. </span> </div>
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market town with a thriving provincial social scene, consisting of balls, race
meetings and Assemblies. But the town lacked a theatre as royal patents were
given to only a few provincial theatres. An </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Act </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">was passed in 1788, allowing
licences for classical plays to be performed for sixty days at any one time, which enabled
Samuel Butler to open the Theatre in Friars Wynd in September that year. Butler
had married a twice-widowed, forty-six-year-old Richmond actress when he was
twenty-three in 1773 and took over the running of her troupe of travelling
players. The Butler Company<span style="color: red;"> </span>continued to stage
regular productions until the lease expired in 1830. The Theatre closed in 1848
and became an auction house, wine store, and later, a corn chandler. Extensive
restorations over the years have ensured the Theatre retains its authenticity,
so audiences today enjoy the same intimate atmosphere as in past times. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new front attached to original building (c) Cloud 9</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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entrance, the double doors in Friars Wynd, and handed their coins to Mrs.
Butler in the pay box. The cheapest seats were in the gallery. For a shilling,
the young and dissolute climbed the narrow, wooden stairs and sat on the
benches. People in the front row would kick the board at the base of the panels
to indicate their disapproval of an actor's performance. The
original pay box and staircase are still there - the tight squeeze on the steep
stairs would have made exiting difficult and dangerous if a fire had occurred. </span><br />
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wall to wall. Today there are removable bench ends that extend over the aisles,
and detachable cushions and backs make the theatre experience more comfortable.
At three shillings per person, the boxes were the best seats. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Or were they?</i> While the crowd in the pit
could be hit by flying oranges and such, my guide informed me people sat for
four hours or more and had nowhere to relieve themselves, so the rich patrons
in the boxes sometimes ended up with wet wigs or clothing from urine dripping
through the floorboards overhead! </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">view from stage (c) Cloud 9</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">The
eleven boxes are named after playwrights. Only the inscription on the centre one,
Shakespeare, spelled the old-fashioned way, is original. The two boxes on the
edge of the stage allowed for intimate involvement between the audience and actors.
Juliet boxes, used for balcony scenes, are on either side of the stage above
the proscenium doors. The Royal Box is, of course, the best seat as it has a
direct line to the actors on stage. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I
can confirm this is true after sitting on the same chair used by Prince Charles
and other royals. That's the closest I'll ever get to royalty! <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">As I drank in the atmosphere and
admired the blue-green Georgian colour scheme, it was easy to imagine the
laughter from the pit, the actors raising their voices over the unruly crowd in
the gallery, the rustle of my silk gown as I turn to greet a friend in the next
box...oops, back to the present. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">As there were no
tickets in those days, wealthier patrons would send their servants to pay
earlier in the evening and mind a seat for them. A peephole in the door to the
boxes slid open so they could see where their servants were sitting. Mrs.
Butler also used this to keep an eye on the performance and the audience's
behaviour. The ceiling has been painted with a blue sky and white clouds, imitating the open
courtyard where plays were watched before theatres were built. The Theatre
seats 214, but Samuel Butler could cram in 400 people. </span> </div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXYDVQueMpR5fy5QLvwpkjFSBWeio-AdoTUJ89kDsekCrwtGR6p9ogxTIFBcS7YpnHkKDBDlMlNBFYFCk3jCSEvKQ4uzis16H1zEXLfoEbTRURLHjlZpDL8kKhZe5pXp0AfiCt7D1l26Ji/s1600/The+Gamester+playbill.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXYDVQueMpR5fy5QLvwpkjFSBWeio-AdoTUJ89kDsekCrwtGR6p9ogxTIFBcS7YpnHkKDBDlMlNBFYFCk3jCSEvKQ4uzis16H1zEXLfoEbTRURLHjlZpDL8kKhZe5pXp0AfiCt7D1l26Ji/s200/The+Gamester+playbill.jpg" title="Playbill" width="141" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Playbill courtesy of <a href="http://www.georgiantheatreroyal.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;">The Georgian Theatre Royal</a></td></tr>
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-</style><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">The
floor of the stage was raised at the back to give audiences a better view. Candles
on dishes, floating in a trough of water, lit the foot of the stage. On chilly
evenings, the fireplace at the back of the stage was used to warm the actors. Both dressing rooms also have a fireplace. Actors often slept on the floor of
the dressing rooms when accommodation was unavailable during the busy Season. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The machine room under the stage contained
the mechanism to winch the trough of footlights to the stage, and a counter-weighted
platform to shoot an actor through a trapdoor, which often resulted in injury.
Once there were three trapdoors, now there is one. The museum at the back of
the Theatre houses many original objects, as well as the Woodland Scene,
believed to be the oldest known scenery, painted between 1818 and 1836.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">This <a href="http://youtu.be/2r-ivyBMnZQ" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;">video</a> shows a detailed
tour inside the Theatre.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Here is the <a href="http://www.georgiantheatreroyal.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;">link</a> to the Georgian Theatre Royal. Museum Week, held every summer, gives visitors an even greater insight into the Theatre's early beginnings. </span></div>
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</div>Cheryl Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08545521488947790978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991182272936441668.post-56382458038461495662012-07-30T06:00:00.084+10:002012-07-30T06:00:05.108+10:00History was written on the back of the horse.<strong>By Danielle Lisle</strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><em><strong>As Wednesday, August the 1<sup>st</sup>, is the horses celebrated birthday here in Australia, I thought I’d honour them by discussing their input into history.</strong></em> </span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #5b0000;"><span style="color: black;">"History was written on the back of the horse," an inscription at The Horse Park in Kentucky, USA. </span></span></i><span style="color: #5b0000;"><span style="color: black;">How very true.</span> </span></div>
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Our four-legged friend, the horse, has played a substantial role in the world of historical romance. From the simple but strong carriage horse in the Regency novel, to the adaptable mountain pony in the Scottish Highlands, or the stunning steed which the duke rode upon as he whisked his future duchess off her feet, the horse has always been by our hero’s side.<br />
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These days horses do not appear in modern day novels as much as they once did, simply because ownership of horses has turned from an essential form of transport, to an ownership of pleasure. </div>
Like today, horses were not a ‘cheap’ commodity to own or maintain. Horses ranged in price, depending on their use. Where they part of a matching team for a stately carriage, a well breed hack for a gentlemen or lady, or perhaps a horse with superior speed offering the gentlemen a potential taste of victory on the track. I read somewhere <em>(of which I can’t recall, much to my frustration)</em> that <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">William Cavendish, the 6th Duke of Devonshire, paid a thousand pounds (about $100,000 today) for a race horse which had to be shot two weeks later as it broke it leg in its first race. <em>Bummer...</em></span><br />
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In the Regency, one could not own a carriage or keep the horses to draw it if you didn’t earn at least 1,100 pounds a year. This equates to about $110,000 in today’s markets. Don’t forget it is not simply just the initial cost of buying the steed that will set you back, which could range from one to several hundred pounds for a midrange animal, but you had to maintain the horses and keep grooms and drivers. A horse kept in stable in London cost a lot more to feed than a horse at a country estate. It wasn’t like the London horses had access to pasture to graze and therefore cost more to feed in grain. </div>
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Instead, most people hired horses and drivers when they travelled or used the services of a hackney coach (taxi) while in London. While still rather expensive, they did not tie one down to the ongoing costs of the animals keep or their handler’s wages. An example of costs for a longer journey, hiring two horses and a post-chaise carriage and a postilion (rider/driver) at the cost of 1/- per mile (1.6kms). The distance from Longbourn to Rosings we know was about 50 miles (about 80kms), so the cost of travelling there would be 50/-, 2 pounds ten, or in today’s equivalent about $250. This was the most cost effective way for people to travel. <br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">**Please forgive me if I’ve offered a seemingly large section on how much it all cost, it just blows my mind! Allrighty, different track – jockeys ready?</i></div>
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What do you think of when you hear, “Tattersall’s”? I think of my mother and her weekly trip to the newsagency to buy her lotto ticket. <br />
Well, back in the Regency, Tattersall’s was a horse sale yards in London, established in 1766 by Richard Tattersall, horse master to the Duke of Kingston. These sale yards become a popular place to buy and sell horseflesh, carriages and even hounds, with sale days being twice a week in winter and one a week in summer. It housed stabling for over a hundred horses with plenty of room to inspect carriages or the yapping hounds in their kennels <em>(think of the noise!).</em> <br />
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Horses were also fashion statements. Who had the best horse or the most stunning steed? </div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"I say, did you see the stallion Lord Percy rode upon in Lester Square yestereve? The beast was simply the most stunning horse I have ever laid eyes upon!"</i> </div>
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But we woman cannot be forgotten. Flat and steeple racing was also held for women. Mrs. Bateman wrote in 1723, "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Last week, Mrs. Aslibie arranged a flat race for women, and nine of that sex, mounted astride and dressed in short pants, jackets and jockey caps participated. They were striking to see, and there was a great crowd to watch them. The race was a very lively one; but I hold it indecent entertainment."</i> Some women--such as the infamous Letty Lade, who reportedly swore like a coachman, rode and drove to please themselves, and made their own fashion statement by bucking the trends for demure ladies. <em>(I think I would have liked these woman...)</em> </div>
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But horse racing was a increasingly expensive sport <em>(yes, at the costs again).</em> Prince Regent’s stud farm for his horses was rumoured to have an annual cost of 30,000 pounds a year for its upkeep. That’s 3 million a year today! <em>Sheesh!</em></div>
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How many of you out there dreamed of owning your own horse, riding it off into the sunset and feeling the wind fly through your hair? </div>
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I was one of the few lucky kids out there, owning my own horse since the age of seven. To this day I still own the Thoroughbred I brought <em>(after working and saving for a year as a checkout chick at Woolworths)</em> when I was fifteen. Rain, or Rain Ridge as was his racing/show name, carried me through the years of Pony Club and Eventing. We even tried PoloX once, but after my teammate hit me in the head with a bat, I determined the sport was not for me. Today he lives the cosy life in retirement, with the occasion weekend trail ride through the bush or on an excursion to the beach. It’s not a bad life for a horse in his late twenties, though once a horse ‘retired’ in the days gone past, their fate was not always guaranteed to be a relaxing one. </div>
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Once a horse became old, no longer able to keep up with the other horses in the team or simply because it became injured, the quickest answer was a bullet. This was not always the case and sometimes if the horse was deemed favourably by its owner or horse master, it would be sent out to a farm to work for its remaining days. But sadly, a true retirement, of lazy days roaming a lush paddock, wasn’t a rarity. Good to see some things have changed. </div>
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Happy Birthday Horses! Have a carrot on me. </div>
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In my debut novel, <a href="http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=1751" target="_blank">THE ROSE’S BLOOM</a> <em>(that coincidently hits
the shelves today)</em> my hero and heroine relied a great deal on their trusty
steeds, whether it be to take them on a hunt, journey or simply a pleasure ride.
My hero was actually out on a hunt when he noticed a young woman by the riverbank,
her unexperienced fingers seeming to get her nowhere. He was a gentleman after
all, and who is he to allow this poor damsel to go unaided? <em>*giggle*</em> </div>
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<a href="http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=1751" target="_blank">THE ROSE'S BLOOM</a> is the first instalment in my <a href="http://www.total-e-bound.com/authordetail.asp?A_ID=234" target="_blank">ROGUES OF DECEPTION</a> series with Total-E-Bound Publishing. </div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Quote reference: </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.rakehell.com/article.php?id=152&Title=Regency-Horses" target="_blank">Website, Rakehell, Regency Horses</a></span></div>Danielle Lislehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12549817332407971930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991182272936441668.post-63085046951993710322012-07-29T15:53:00.000+10:002012-07-29T15:53:26.592+10:00Historical Hearts Good News<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /><br /><strong><em>Christina Phillips</em></strong> has sold her next two<br />Roman / Druid books</div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">BETRAYED & TAINTED</span></strong><br />to Ellora's Cave.</div>
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<br />Christina has also sold a Regency Vampire novella<br /><strong><span style="font-size: large;">BLOODLUST DENIED</span></strong><br />and her Highland Warrior series<br /><strong><span style="font-size: large;">HER SAVAGE SCOT</span></strong><br />to Ellora's Cave.</div>
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<strong>BETRAYED</strong><br />Release Date to be advised.<br /><br /><em>When Druid priestess Nimue is injured and enslaved by the hated Roman Legion, she’s determined to escape and complete her mission for the Briton king.<br /><br />But the tough Roman warrior who saved her life is far from the brutal barbarian she fears. His touch inflames and passion burns and against everything she believes in her heart surrenders to her enemy.<br /><br />Roman warrior Tacitus is enchanted by the fiery beauty who shows no fear and challenges him at every turn. He’s determined to make her his, whatever it takes.But when he discovers the depth of her betrayal his loyalties are torn between his heritage and a woman who could destroy everything he’s ever believed in.</em><br /><br /><strong>TAINTED</strong><br />Release Date to be advised.</div>
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<em>Driven by the knowledge he failed to protect his king and embittered at losing the woman he loves, Druid warrior Gawain despises the lust he feels for the beautiful Roman patrician, Antonia. But despite the danger of discovery he embarks on an illicit liaison with her, determined to uncover the reason for the infinite sorrow that haunts her eyes.<br /><br />Newly arrived in Britannia from Rome, Antonia is inexplicably drawn to the cold, tough Celt who ignites a passion she long thought died at the hands of her brutal former husband. She knows her growing feelings for him can lead nowhere. But when a shadow from her past threatens her future Antonia is torn between the Empire of her birth and betraying Gawain, the man she’s grown to love.</em></div>
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<em>When tough Scot warrior Connor Mackenzie rides into the barbaric lands of the Picts on a mission for his king, he never expects to be captivated by a beautiful Pictish widow. Drawn under her spell, yet unaware of her true identity, he risks everything for one passionate night in her arms.<br /><br />Aila, princess of Pictland, swore long ago she would do anything within her power to help defeat the Vikings who invaded her beloved land, and murdered her husband while she was still a bride. But within days of meeting Connor her frozen heart thaws and once again she imagines a future filled with love and passion.<br /><br />But when Aila’s father returns to his kingdom, and Connor delivers the message from his king, Aila becomes a pawn in a deadly game of politics and betrayal. Her heart belongs to Connor, but she must pledge her loyalty to another. To save her people from the Viking onslaught she must marry the prince of Dal Riada – Connor’s half-brother.</em></div>
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promoting romance writing in <a href="http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/news/14391671/romance-writers-share-love-of-success/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">The West Australian</span></a> newspaper</div>
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Christina was quoted as Christina Ashcroft</div>
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<br /><em>Scandal's Mistress is the first book that I had read from author Bronwyn Stuart. I was very impressed with this short story. What it lacked in length it more than made up for with the powerful emotions exhibited by the two main characters. I found myself hating to say goodbye to Justin & Carmalina.</em></div>
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<em>Justin Trentham has been trying for years to force his uncaring family into dis-owning him. Then he comes up with his grandest scheme yet. He will take Italian opera singer Carmalina Belluccini as his mistress. But people sometimes aren't what they seem. What starts out as a simple business arrangement soon has these two vulnerable souls contemplating a more permanent arrangement. A surprise twist at the end will shed some light on the family dynamics that will explain Justin's drastic actions.</em></div>
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<em>I really enjoyed this book. It left me craving more of the lead characters story. The author displayed a true talent for making the reader "feel" for her characters. I highly recommend this story for all fans of the historical romance genre. I’m looking forward to more books from this promising author.</em></div>
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Purchase link UK <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Reluctant-Marquess-ebook/dp/B007I8N2W0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343533438&sr=8-1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">here</span></a></div>
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<strong><em>Alison Stuart</em></strong> has sold her time travel novella</div>
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<br /><strong><em>Danielle Lisle</em></strong> has sold the last book in her</div>
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<em>Lord Sterling is heir to a dukedom and it is time he is married, yet all the girls of the season are dull and lifeless, to his mind. Well, all apart from Lady Nellie. Her flowered words are laced with insults—insults that, rather than offending him, set his mind into a flutter, wondering if the passion in her voice will be as strong in the bedroom.</em></div>
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<strong><em>Joanna Lloyd</em></strong> has sold her <strong>FIRST</strong> novel</div>
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<strong>What a FANTASTIC round up this month.<br />Congratulations everyone!<br />HH</strong><br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
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In the third book in my <i>Forbidden</i> series, <b><i>Betrayed</i></b>,
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and Weaver of Fates. I only knew a little about this goddess but wanted to
thread her legend into Nimue’s story. She is mentioned in the <i>Mabinogion</i>,
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Here, in a nutshell, is the legend. Arianrhod’s uncle, the
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whenever he wasn’t at war, in order to retain his sovereignty and power. When
Arianrhod and Gwydion’s younger brother fell in love with her Gwydion, God of
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The younger brother immediately took advantage and raped the
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Upon Math’s return, and learning that his maiden could no
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his two nephews. His punishments were completely bizarre and involved turning
them into a mated pair of deer for a year, then a mated pair of wild hogs and
finally a pair of mated wolves. At the end of each year the brothers produced
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So, finally, the punishment ended, but Math still required a
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Arianrhod’s name means “starry wheel” and her palace, or
castle, was the Aurora Borealis. She is one of the Triple Goddesses, a Moon
Goddess associated with reincarnation and is connected to the womb, death,
rebirth and creation. She is a weaver of the fates and could shapeshift into an
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I was intrigued and knew I’d found the hook I’d been looking
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strong, independent and doesn’t need a man to protect her. But when she’s
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<b><i>Forbidden</i></b> - Out Now</div>
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<b><i>Captive</i></b>
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<b><i>Betrayed</i></b>
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<b><i>Tainted</i></b>
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<b><a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/mab/index.htm" target="_blank"><i>The Mabinogion</i></a></b>, translated by Lady Charlotte
Guest. Welsh legends collected in the Red Book of Hergest, a manuscript which
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The laws of marriage went beyond being merely a civil contract,they significantly altered the status of an individual (the woman) in respect of her actions, obligations and property. Because it was also considered a "holy estate", canon law as well as civil law had to be taken into account. Until the nineteenth century, questions of "Marriage" were the almost exclusive jurisdiction of the Church.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Marriage required not only the solemnisation provided by the church but also the "physical union of man and woman in carnal copulation" (and because I love latin legal maxims, here's the maxim for the day "commixtio sexuum"). Because there could be copulation without marriage, it was decided that an intention to marry (a mental element) had to be present and according to Canon Law (and at least until 1753) a promise to marry someone could be held as an indissoluble union, a contract of marriage between two people by consent alone without any form of ecclesiastical ceremony, provided the consent was given in words of the present tense...”I am marrying you...” as opposed to “...I will marry you...”. These irregular marriages were generally legitimised by the parties being compelled to solemnise their marriage publicly at the door of the church. In the event of a dispute with a later marriage, this irregular marriage would be upheld. This archaic concept of marriage lingered through to the 1970s in the form of an action for “breach of promise of marriage”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For a marriage to be “regular”, publicity of the intention to marry came into formal existence by 1200 when Archbishop Walter required banns to be published on three separate occasions. The calling of banns allowed the congregation to declare any impediment to the marriage such as consanguinity or pre contract.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In 1753 Lord Hardwicke’s Act abolished secret marriages. The publication of banns, the purchase of a licence, the presence of two witnesses and the recording of the marriage in a public register were made compulsory. Interestingly Jews and Quakers were exempt from this Act and there was no special provision for Roman Catholics and non conformists. This was not remedied until 1836 when the civil marriage ceremony was introduced and Non conformist places of worship could be registered under that statute. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Neither could she sue or be sued and nor could she take any legal action against her husband because they were seen to be “one person”. In the case of injury to the wife, a husband could sue for loss he suffered through the loss of the wife’s services or society (consortium). He could sue in trespass against a man who committed adultery with his wife. If the wife absconded with her lover, an action for “enticement” could be brought against the lover, alleging the defendant had maliciously schemed to deprive him of his wife’s consortium by enticing her away. This action was not abolished until 1970! No corresponding rights existed for the wife.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On marriage any property which the woman owned as a single woman became the husbands and could be disposed of by him without recourse. You may recall from my last post, if the husband predeceased the wife she could claim one third of his estate if he died intestate (without a will). If he died testate (with a will) she was only entitled to whatever legacies he saw fit to leave her. Interestingly although a wife’s real property brought by her into the marriage, vested in her husband during the marriage, if she predeceased him he was only entitled to a tenancy by the curtesy. A husband could dispose of her property but on his death the wife would be entitled to claim it back. However if she wanted to alienate the land during her husband’s life time, she would have to have his assent. Any grants of property to the wife during the marriage, vested the property in the husband.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Reference: An Introduction to English Legal History: J.H. Baker</i></span></div>
<br />Alison Stuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07101217971756114754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991182272936441668.post-58251720448066073742012-07-09T06:00:00.000+10:002012-07-09T06:00:01.261+10:00INTERVIEW WITH SOPHIA JAMES by Allison Butler ~<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In 2008 I was lucky enough to win the Romance
Writers of New Zealand Second Chance Contest and one of the prizes to choose
from was the Saturday and Sunday conference. My clever husband said I couldn't
pass up such an amazing opportunity. I'm so glad I didn't.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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my win, before stating she'd read my entry and loved it. She then introduced
herself as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SOPHIA JAMES.</i></b> I managed to keep from tumbling out of my
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hi Sophia, it's wonderful to have you here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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titled, '<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Lady With The Devil's
Scar'. </b>Can you please tell us a little about the era, the setting and what
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The
story is set in Scotland in the 1360’s when the old patriarchal laws of land
ownership were changing. My heroine, Isobel Dalceann, is caught in the middle
of these changes and trying to save her castle from being taken over by the
King’s men. She is a damaged warrior woman, a woman who can look after herself
and her people.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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hero, Marcus de Courtenay, is one of David’s mercenary soldiers who has come to
reclaim the Dalceann Keep. He is a leader of the armies of Philip of France and
is as ruthless as he is solitary. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh My Goodness! It sounds like a fabulous story with
strong characters and loads of conflict. I can't wait to read it. Here's the gorgeous cover and back blurb ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Many writers have a trigger, an opening line,
dialogue, an image, a circumstance, a discovery made while doing research,
something that sets their mind on the next story they write. Was there a
particular trigger that inspired you to write <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Lady With The Devil's Scar?<o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The
story begins in a storm off the wild coast of Fife Ness. I imagined my heroine
swimming out to a shipwreck and finding my hero drowning. Marc wore a red
gilded surcoat and the image of him in this through the water was one I could
not let go of.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">What a powerful image and a wonderful trigger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">What is the tone of this book?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I
always write in two periods; Regency and Medieval Scotland. My Medieval books
are always darker and harsher. I loved the raw challenge of this book, two
people caught in the changing tide of history and trying to survive in the best
way that they could. Medieval knights never apologise. The nearest they get to
that is a small hint of shame. It’s such a relief to write characters who are
allowed to do almost anything. Isobel defies every rule of her time, and
dressed in boy’s clothes with a vivid scar across her cheek she marches across
her world with barely a backward glance.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Isobel sounds like a fascinating heroine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Have some of your books been easier to write than
others?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">This
book was one of the easier books I have written. It just seemed to flow from
the characters and I loved the fact that it did. One Unashamed Night, my R*BY
winner from 2011 had the same sort of ease.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">How do you feel when you've finished writing a book?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Relieved.
Worried that I have not quite done the story justice. Desperate to start a new
book. A myriad of emotions really. I always write ‘The End Copyright Sophia
James’ and that is such a good feeling of accomplishment. I then say I will
open a bottle of good champagne or buy a new dress but actually I never do.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Well, I definitely think you should:)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Can you start on the next story straight away or do
you need to take a break in between stories?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I
usually take a break for a while and think about the next book. A big part of
my writing lies in this thinking time and it can be sometimes quite a number of
weeks before I feel like I can start. I am not a very fast writer, but once I
know the characters I can generally begin and move quite quickly. When I write
I only ever do one good draft so I never go ahead with pages until I am
completely satisfied about what comes before.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Is there something in particular you strive to
achieve when writing a book?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">A
knowledge of the characters motivations. A shared feeling of hope that even in
adversity good things can shine through. I like honesty in a book. I also like
intelligent heroes and heroines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">If you could give a single piece of advice from all
you've learned on your writing journey so far, what would it be?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Can
I give two pieces?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">You can give as many as you'd like:)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Never
underestimate your reader’s intelligence and always thread in layers of
questions across the first five chapters. This will help the story blossom out
into a book and keep your reader with you as you move on to explain the
secrets.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Thanks for this priceless advice.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Is there anyone in particular you draw inspiration
from?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Joanna
Bourne, Diana Gabaldon, Judith Mc Naught, Julie Garwood. These are the authors
whom I have read and reread. How do they make their books so marvellous? I wish
I knew.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I think your books are marvellous, too:) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Now for a few fun questions ~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Your favourite season? <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Spring.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Favourite flower? <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Violets.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Favourite time of day/night? <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Evening.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Favourite food? <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cherries.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Favourite way to relax? <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Walking.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Sophia, thank you so much for sharing part of you
and your writing life with us here at Historical Hearts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">If anyone would like to know more about Sophia's
fabulous books please visit her website here ~ <a href="http://www.sophiajames.net/">www.sophiajames.net<o:p></o:p></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Sophia has kindly offered to giveaway 2 copies of
her up-coming release, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">'The Lady With
The Devil's Scar'</b> to 2 lucky people who leave a comment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">All you need to do
is tell me the names of the hero and the heroine of her new book '<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lady With The Devil’s Scar</b>.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Good Luck!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991182272936441668.post-55141801825589779462012-06-24T18:19:00.004+10:002012-06-24T18:19:55.145+10:00REGENCY RULES AND ETIQUETTE by Maggi Andersen<!--[if !mso]>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">A BARON IN
HER BED </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The Spies
of Mayfair Series</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Book One</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">London, 1816. A handsome baron. A
faux betrothal. And Horatia’s plan to join the London literary set takes a
dangerous turn.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Now
that the war with France has ended, Baron Guy Fortescue arrives in England to
claim his inheritance, abandoned over thirty years ago when his father fled to France
after killing a man in a duel. When Guy is set upon by footpads in London, a
stranger, Lord Strathairn, rescues and befriends him. But while travelling to
his country estate, Guy is again attacked. He escapes only to knock himself out
on a tree branch. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aspiring poet Horatia Cavendish has taken to
riding her father’s stallion, “The General”, around the countryside of Digswell
dressed as a groom. She has become bored of her country life and longs to
escape to London to pursue her desire to become part of the London literary
set. When she discovers Guy lying unconscious on the road, the two are forced
to take shelter for the night in a hunting lodge. After Guy discovers her ruse,
a friendship develops between them. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Guy
suspects his relative, Eustace Fennimore is behind the attacks on his life. He has
been ensconced in Rosecroft Hall during the family’s exile and will become the
heir should Guy die. Horatia refuses to believe her godfather, Eustace, is responsible.
But when Guy proposes a faux betrothal to give him more time to discover the
truth, she agrees. Secure in the knowledge that his daughter will finally wed,
Horatia’s father allows her to visit her blue-stocking aunt in London. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">But
Horatia’s time spent in London proves to be anything but a literary feast, for a
dangerous foe plots Guy’s demise. She is determined to keep alive her handsome
fiancé, who has proven more <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>than willing
to play the part of her lover even as he resists her attempts to save him. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">A
BARON IN HER BED Coming 6<sup>th</sup> September 2012. Available for pre-order
from Amazon: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Baron-Her-Spies-Mayfair-Series/dp/1908483342/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340522318&sr=8-1&keywords=a+baron+in+her+bed">http://www.amazon.com/Baron-Her-Spies-Mayfair-Series/dp/1908483342/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340522318&sr=8-1&keywords=a+baron+in+her+bed</a></span></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.maggiandersenauthor.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black;">Author Website:</span> http://www.maggiandersenauthor.com</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Research:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
Georgette Heyer’s Regency World by Jennifer Kloester. </i>Sourcebooks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">To celebrate the release of my Regency novella</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>A Marriage Made in Mayfair</em></strong></span><br />
<strong><em><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Available June 15</span></em></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'm having a month long blog hop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Join me for fun, laughs and prizes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Every stop I make I'll be gifting a copy of my novella from Amazon.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">(or preferred e-reader store)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Also everyone who comments throughout the blog hop</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">will go into </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">the major prize draw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But what is the prize??? Well, without further ado you'll receive...</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Postcard Sets</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Romance Trading Cards</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">$30.00 Amazon Gift Card</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Copy of A Marriage Made in Mayfair</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And a copy of my two previous works</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">gifted through Amazon.com</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia;">(or preferred e-reader store)</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Interested? Well here are the links and dates of where I'll be:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">June 18 - </span><a href="http://christinaphillips.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Christina Phillips</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">June 20 - </span><a href="http://jessanastasi.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Jess Anastasi</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">June 22 - </span><a href="http://www.suzilove.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Suzi Love</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">June 24 - </span><a href="http://imeldaevans.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Wine, Women and Wordplay</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> - Imelda Evans</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Glorious, Seductive Pompeii...</b></span><br />
I say seductive because of the fascination and lure I have for anything old and timeless. I love the history woven around this Ancient Roman city. Once famous for it's exotic lifestyle, I found there is so much more behind this mysterious Lost City.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The city of Pompeii as it greets<br /> you when you first enter.</span></b></td></tr>
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It was the year AD79 - 1,933 years ago, and the city of Pompeii was buried beneath 13 - 20 ft of ash and pumice that came from the nearby Volcano of Mt Vesuvius when she erupted.<br />
The buried city was 1st rediscovered in 1749 and there are excavations still going on.<br />
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In 2010 DH and I visited the amazing ruins. It is a sight that I shall long remember and would love to have the opportunity to revisit it again. My biggest surprise was the size of the city. It is far larger than I ever thought or could have imagined.<br />
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Like most of Rome itself and all of Italy, I was terribly humbled to have walked streets and visited places that Caesars, Emperors and Kings had -2000years before. </div>
As our tour bus had to leave Rome at 6am it was a long day trip south. There really is too much to see and take in, in one long day visit. We only had about 4 hours to explore the ruins and it really wasn't near enough-(for me anyway.)<br />
The work it has taken to uncover the vast streets, amphitheater, amazing homes of the wealthy and the common people, is truly a magnificent feat.<br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qy5QbqBKbAk/T7TI2Nhd2nI/AAAAAAAAAJE/P9vHBfo9Xgg/s1600/Italy+682.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qy5QbqBKbAk/T7TI2Nhd2nI/AAAAAAAAAJE/P9vHBfo9Xgg/s200/Italy+682.jpg" width="150" /></a>Apparently there were 100's of snack shops, where the Pompeian's would meet their friends or buy take a way food - just like we do. Imagine that.<br />
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There are many frescoes still on the walls of the homes of the wealthy, and most are alive with rich colours after all this time.<br />
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To the left is A foyer, with the beautiful mosaic floor tiles featuring sea-creatures. To the right you look into the rest of the house and see the inner court-yard or central meeting room, I guess like our modern family room with other rooms and hallways branching off it. We were told this home belonged to a very rich family.<br />
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There are many places off limits to the public, which is understandable, but we were taken into the *Red-Light* district, a popular tourist stop, as the city was known for it's many brothels. The detail of the erotic paintings and drawings can still be seen on the walls. Apparently the inside was not lavishly furnished, the beds were mostly made of brick or stone with a mattress laid on top.<br />
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Walking the small empty streets of Pompeii is incredibly moving. It wasn't all bustling and full of excited gossip as you'd expect, but a more somber gathering. I felt like everyone was taking in this magical surrounding in quiet personal contemplation. In awe! As we all know today, the early Romans were so far ahead of their time.<br />
SO much was fascinating for me.<br />
You see these large stones in a row, going across the middle of the road. When it rained the roads became one huge drain or gutter for the water to flow, they were like small rivers throughout the city. To get across the street people walked on top of these *stepping stones* Ingenious you say, well that's not all. The Roman/Pompeian's were so clever in their town planning, that the carts being pulled around the city were built specifically so the axle was the perfect width for the cart wheels to go either side of the middle stone. SO they were able to continue to work in the rain.<br />
How amazing is that? Wish my road was like that at times ...<br />
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Good reason to keep them around I guess :)<br />
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Of course we all were blown away when we arrived at the place where the plaster casts of human bodies, found among the ash, were on display.<br />
This place was really quite Errie. The famous cast of a dog that the archaeologists believe was chained outside it's owners house.<br />
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We did have a guide for this trip, she was an older Dutch Lady. And I have to say, that of all the wonderful, friendly guides on the trips we've done to various countries, I have to say she was the worst one we've ever had. We were obviously of the lower class of city inhabitants. She was rude, no sense of humour, stuffy, pompous and had apparently left her people skills (if she had any) at home. Having said that, she was fairly knowledgeable on the topic of Pompeii and that was all that really mattered. Maybe she should be in a university instead.<br />
So I have mostly used what I learnt on this visit to enhance a little of your knowledge here. I do apologize if some of the information I have entered here may not be 100% correct, but it was how it has been told to me at the time. Feel free to enlighten me, but there is much more to discover about Pompeii on the Web or by other sources, if you wish.<br />
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">London, 1805<br /><br /> Justin Trentham, third son of the Earl of Billington, is determined to get himself disowned from his cold and unloving family. Despite his numerous affairs with questionable women of the ton, his parents continue to be dismissive of his ploys, but Justin spots the perfect scandal in the form of a beautiful, exotic Italian opera singer...<br /><br /> Carmalina Belluccini refuses to become his mistress, despite being tempted by his charms. But after losing her singing voice, she finds herself destitute. She agrees to be Justin's mistress for one month, until she has enough money to return to her beloved Italy.<br /><br /> She intends to keep their arrangement strictly business, but after witnessing Justin's vulnerable side, she finds herself falling more in love than in lust with him. Carmalina is having second thoughts about leaving England...but is their love strong enough to survive the scandal of the season?</span></em><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">The Gentle Wind's Caress</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><strong>A Marriage Made in Mayfair</strong></span></div>
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Suzanna March wished for one thing, the elusive, rakish charmer, Lord Danning.
But after a frightful first season sees her flee to Paris, such dreams seem
impossible. That is until she returns to London, a new woman, and one who will
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Revenge on the Lord who gave her the cut direct and perhaps a little flirtation
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Danning unbeknown to his peers is in financial strife and desperate to marry an
heiress. Such luck would have it Miss Suzanna March fits all his credentials
and seduction is his plan of action. Yes, the woman who returned from Paris is
stronger, defiant, and a little argumentative, but it does not stop Lord Danning
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will Suzanna fall for such pretty words from a charmer only after one thing. Or
will Lord Danning prove to Suzanna and himself that she is more than his ticket
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Has two new fantastic covers </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">for her novels</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><strong>By the Sword</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><strong>The King's Man</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They look great, Alison. Congratulations!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My historical novel, The Gentle Wind's Caress, has been released in paperback and in digital formats. Yay!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /><b>The Blurb:</b><span style="background-color: white;">Halifax, 1876. On the death of her mother and sister, Isabelle Gibson is left to fend for herself and her brother in a privately-run workhouse. After the matron's son attempts to rape her, Isabelle decides to escape him and a life of drudgery by agreeing to marry a moorland farmer she has never met. But this man, Farrell, is a drunkard and a bully in constant feud with his landlord, Ethan Harrington. When Farrell bungles a robbery and deserts her, Isabelle and Ethan are thrown together as she struggles to save the farm. Both are married and must hide their growing love. But despite the secrecy, Isabelle draws strength from Ethan as faces from the past return to haunt her and a tragedy is set to strike that will change all of their lives forever.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><b>The except:</b></span><span lang="EN-AU">‘He’ll be here soon.’ Hughie sat by the fire darning a sock. ‘The snow has likely held him up.’</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-AU">‘What keeps him out night after night?’ She stamped her foot in frustration. ‘He drinks more than a sailor does on his first day back at port!’</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-AU"> Hughie grinned.</span><span lang="EN-AU">The sound of scratching made Isabelle frown. The snowstorm grew in intensity. She could no longer see the outbuildings. The scratching sounded again. ‘What is that?’</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-AU">Hughie shrugged. ‘The trees on the window upstairs?’</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-AU">Isabelle stepped away from the window, nibbling her fingertips. There would be no market day today. She went to walk into the scullery when a thump hit the back door. She opened it and cried out as Farrell landed at her feet.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-AU">Hughie dashed to her side and together they stared at her husband’s bloody form.</span><span lang="EN-AU">‘Heaven’s above!’ Isabelle bent to touch him. He stirred and moaned. ‘Help me bring him inside, Hughie.’</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-AU">They grabbed him under the arms and dragged him down the step and onto the kitchen floor. His coat was missing and his wet woollen vest cloaked him like another skin.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-AU">Farrell opened and closed his eyes. ‘Isabelle…’</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-AU">‘What happened to you?’ She took a dishcloth from the table and knelt to wipe the blood oozing from a cut in his forehead. She gestured to Hughie. ‘Get me some blankets off the bed and a pillow too. He’s too heavy to lift, so I’ll have to make a bed in here for him.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-AU">’</span><span lang="EN-AU">As Hughie ran to do as she bid, Isabelle quickly made him a cup of sweet tea and held his head up to pour a little into his mouth. Next, she rubbed Farrell’s cold hands between her own. Hughie ran into the room with the items she asked for, and Isabelle placed the pillow under Farrell’s head. ‘Heat a warming pan, Hughie.’</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-AU">Farrell’s eyes fluttered, he moaned between blue lips.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-AU">Isabelle ran into the scullery and found an old pair of gloves. She returned and tugged them onto his icy hands. ‘Lord, what have you done to yourself?’</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-AU">He murmured and opened his eyes. She tucked the blanket around him more securely. ‘Lie still.’</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-AU">‘No…’</span><span lang="EN-AU">She put the cup to his lips again. ‘Drink this now. You need to get warm.’</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-AU">He slowly eased himself up onto one elbow. ‘Got to hide.’ He wheezed and then coughed. His split lip began to bleed freely again.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-AU">‘Hide?’ She frowned. ‘Why?’</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-AU">‘They’ll find me here!’ He tried to get up, but she pushed him back down.</span><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-AU">‘Who?</span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">’</span><br />
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">‘Had to run…’</span><br />
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hughie knelt down beside them. ‘Has he lost his mind?’</span><br />
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">‘Heaven knows, silly man. It’d be hardly surprising if he has, being out in this weather all night.’ She made Farrell drink again. ‘Take his boots off, Hughie.’</span><br />
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">‘No!’ Farrell reared up. ‘I must hide.’ He gripped Isabelle’s arms until they hurt. His eyes were wide and frightened. ‘I can’t hide here. They’ll find me.’</span><br />
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In a panic, Isabelle glanced up at the door as though the riders from Hell would burst through it any moment. She flung away his hands, alarmed. ‘What have you done?’ Her voice sounded high to her ears.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">‘They nearly caught me. Had to run.’ Farrell panted, throwing off the blanket, struggling to sit up. ‘They saw my face. I must go!’</span><br />
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Isabelle stood and hugged herself, fighting rising terror. ‘Tell me,’ she whispered.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B00705A120">http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B00705A120</a><br />AnneMarie Brearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12913093174855808979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991182272936441668.post-54661574761422743322012-05-21T12:58:00.000+10:002012-05-27T15:16:10.557+10:00To the Heirs of My Body...Introduction to the laws of succession<br />
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Is everyone sitting up straight, pen in hand, ready to take notes? This blog came about following some comments I received on a recent contest entry that led me to think that the English laws of succession may not be well understood. Only fair...most lawyers don’t understand them either.. However I am (or used to be) a member of the legal profession so hopefully I can provide some information in usable format that may prove helpful.<br />
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I won’t go into the complications and machinations that lawyers devised to “bar the tail” ie remove the tail from estates to allow the land to pass freely according to the general laws of inheritance. Succession law kept lawyers and courts busy (and still does) for years and years. Didn't Dickens write a novel on the subject? (Choccie frog for the person who can tell me which novel and what the dispute was about). It is probably surprising to note that the basic laws of inheritance and entailment did not change until the Property Law Act of 1925.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN8ubOPfk0xn9k4-kCp40BmIhDmgrqYms95lnQMgOYDe_anqYUvFVajQ8xxSkL4nF2xz7w0yhX7sxzFb5bSp-XNy0MQr4vTYyQ6esNeZvIyABsecciadBVux_SVqg_HowhLT7cOgqcCFSg/s1600/wedding.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN8ubOPfk0xn9k4-kCp40BmIhDmgrqYms95lnQMgOYDe_anqYUvFVajQ8xxSkL4nF2xz7w0yhX7sxzFb5bSp-XNy0MQr4vTYyQ6esNeZvIyABsecciadBVux_SVqg_HowhLT7cOgqcCFSg/s200/wedding.JPG" width="200" /></a>A quick word on dowers and jointures. For the reasons stated above, a wife was outside the laws of inheritance - your estate passed to your children or through the entail. Husband and wife were counted, at law, as one person so a husband could not make a gift to his wife during his lifetime with one notable exception. A gift from husband to wife on the day they married, at the church door could take effect on the husband’s death if he predeceased her. This was “dower” and was subject to the supervision of the church. The dower lands were nominated before the marriage service, and after the husband had given his wife the ring saying “With this ring I thee wed”, he gave her tokens symbolising dower with the words “With this dower I thee endow”. The effect of the dower was to give the wife an interest for her life in the nominated lands. This evolved into the common law so as to give to a widow one third of her husband’s estate, independent of any specific dower. However if the bulk of the estate passed outside the will through the entail, there may not have been much for the widow or other children.<br />
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There was also a practice of settling land on husband and wife jointly so as to entitle the wife to an estate called a “jointure” instead of a dower. A wife could elect to take their common law dower or her jointure but not both.<br />
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What if a man married an heiress? If his wealthy wife predeceased him, the widower was allowed, by law to continue to enjoy her estate for his life, providing there was a child of the marriage capable of inheriting. So in effect the husband held the land on trust for his child. This was called “tenancy by curtesy”.<br />
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Still awake? Well done, you have reached the end of this short legal lecture - Laws of Succession 101. For the contest judge who couldn’t understand why, in my story, Lord Somerton’s widow could not inherit his estate, hopefully this has helped explain the situation (and why Lady Somerton has a very nice dower house to move into).<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong><em>Alison</em></strong> also finaled in the</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjJFF1BlN96ELXcydw7yvAw_9W2vC_azR4Kn5iEB63AOYgj0fjBPoA6aoTKgGKfmU7DwplDYMJDE15lGIJE5aMBG5Kd3EtJtZFKPp9R5uZ_Da2MRY9hkLMBGGQIEPG8w1kAUiZRe6qbmx6/s1600/Dutch_windmills,_Holland,_ca__1905.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjJFF1BlN96ELXcydw7yvAw_9W2vC_azR4Kn5iEB63AOYgj0fjBPoA6aoTKgGKfmU7DwplDYMJDE15lGIJE5aMBG5Kd3EtJtZFKPp9R5uZ_Da2MRY9hkLMBGGQIEPG8w1kAUiZRe6qbmx6/s200/Dutch_windmills,_Holland,_ca__1905.jpg" width="200" /></a>There are a number of things that pop into my mind when I
think of the Netherlands or Dutch history. First of all - windmills, the slow
and steady turn of the old sails as they grind the flour to make those delectable
pastries, the flaky and sugary texture as it touches your lips sending one into
a moaning mess of pleasure, ignoring the calories running to your hips as your tastebuds
dance in rapture. Or perhaps the clank of the wooden clogs jumps to your mind
as you see blonde, busty women in little maid outfits such as I now wear for
Oktoberfest, and while not likely historically correct, it is still what first
jumps to mind. </div>
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of the (if not the only) places in the world where cannabis and prostitution
are legal. The home of live sex shows and the ‘Red Light District’ a place
where, if one is so inclined, can for 30 Euros, find pleasure in the arms of a
willing woman before talking the walk of shame, the whistles and cat calls
following you as you exit your lovers door and zip up your fly, all before the
eager eyes of the tourists smoking and drinking in the cafes. </div>
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Yet like any place or moment in time, it was not always as
you see it today. </div>
There is a dark and somewhat chilling history surrounding a
place that is now known to house such willing pleasure. A murky past during the
Holocaust, Anne Frank’s diary is a chilling reminder of that, as well as the
poverty that was faced by the lower and middle classes in the days gone by. <br />
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For some reason when I think of the struggles of poverty, I
conger up images of Oliver Twist asking for more, his smudged cheeks and
tattered clothes at the
forefront of my mind. Was this always the case? I don’t know but I wanted too. It
was then I found a fellow author, R. A. Padmos who actually writes Dutch
historicals. She was kind enough to lend me some insight by allowing me to
review her latest manuscript, <a href="http://www.manifoldpress.co.uk/2012/04/unspoken/" target="_blank">UNSPOKEN</a>. She was also nice enough to allow me to
interview her, see below; </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">You’ve set your
latest release <a href="http://www.manifoldpress.co.uk/2012/04/unspoken/" target="_blank">UNSPOKEN</a> in 1935, in a unnamed ‘Dutch city’. What motivated you
to write about that time and place? <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">R: Simply told, it’s
where I grew up as a child in the sixties, my own grandparents are roughly of
the generation of the main characters. Though the characters, and their story,
are of course as fictional as can be. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What research did you undertake and did you try to focus on the history
and accuracy of the time, or did you let your creative mind as an author rule
the world you produced in <a href="http://www.manifoldpress.co.uk/2012/04/unspoken/" target="_blank">UNSPOKEN</a>?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">R: I actually didn’t have to do much
research for this story. As I child and teenager I heard countless stories of
my grandparents about the Depression and the German occupation (they always
called it “the war”) And what they most talked about, of course, were the
details of daily life and how they managed with a growing family and my granddad
out of work half the time. </i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">As for the gay part: I always thought it’s
important for any gay person to be aware of our history, so by the time I was
ready to write this story, I had most knowledge I needed already in my head. It
goes without saying that this is a work of fiction, not one of science, and
I’ve taken some liberties for the sake of the story. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">You main characters resolve around the
Dutch working class, with your hero actually commenting on how close he and his
family were to starvation, how his body looked malnourished. Why did you choose
to focus on this class of people adverse to the commonly portrayed gentry, like
so many other authors? <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">R: I come from a working class background. I
studied social history. And as a gay woman I can’t help but notice that working
class people seem to be underrepresented in (romantic) historical gay fiction,
except as “rough trade” or as more “authentic”, but also somewhat primitive
“real” men, observed and lusted after by the more refined, but also less manly middle
and higher class men. Both, of course, tell only half of the truth. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">As for the poverty: the Doffer family
manages to keep themselves fed and clothed, thanks to Marije being a hell of a
housewife and Stefan handing over every cent he brings home. But it’s on a
level that’s always one or two steps away from real hunger. Things like paying
the rent on time, making sure the family was properly dressed was a matter of
pride. There didn’t seem to be much envy of what the middle class could afford,
but to deteriorate to the level of the ones who had already given in to their
poverty was a constant fear. You don’t want to know how often my grandmother
corrected even the slightest improper or incorrect use of language of her
children and grandchildren, and she had left school when she was 13. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
first the German occupation didn’t seem so bad and even with a complex system
of rations, there was enough food for everyone. But that changed after a while
and became downright dramatic during the winter of 1944, when no food, fuel or
medication was allowed into the western part of the country as retaliation
against a big railway strike against the Germans. Later the canals and rivers
were frozen and it was simply impossible for the inland ships to get food to
the people, even when the Germans allowed it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The relationships in your story <a href="http://www.manifoldpress.co.uk/2012/04/unspoken/" target="_blank">UNSPOKEN</a>
are so complex. You show us the struggle the hero found when he discovered
desires towards another man. Did you find this aspect difficult to write,
weighting the ‘expected’ behaviour for a man of the time in addition to the
hero’s love and responsibilities towards his family and devoted wife?<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">R: You’re right, they are complex, because
reality is complex. Homosexuality was for the most part invisible in those
days. There was a strong idea that a homosexual man was essentially female in
nature, so any man who didn’t recognise himself in that picture might well have
thought he couldn’t be “that way”. Combine that with the tendency for working
class men to marry young and it’s no surprise Stefan finds himself in a
marriage without even having the slightest idea about his true sexuality until
he actually meets a man he feels so attracted to. He learns there’s a huge
difference between the amicable, but essentially passionless relationship with
his wife, and what he feels for his male lover. He fights that knowledge, but
in the end, there’s no denying the facts. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What have you found, as a published author,
to be the hardest hurdles in writing an historical romance? <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">R: In this case, translating very specific
Dutch situations and words into something outsiders hopefully can relate to. Not
only the physical stuff, but also the way of thinking, the culture. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I wonder if we, with internet and TV making homosexuality
so visible for so many people, can truly understand how deep and total the
silence was for the majority of (working-class) gay men. For that reason, I
can’t say in honesty that Stefan is bisexual or gay-for-that-one-man. Had he
been of his grandchildren’s (my) generation, he would have known as a teenager,
experimented a bit with a few boyfriends (perhaps even one time with a girl) to
finally meet the love of his life. And I bet he and Marije would have been the
very best of friends. </i><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Recipe
for Pea Soup with Bacon and Herbs 1811</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Serves
8-10</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">1
PT (2 ½ cups) old peas, shelled</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">4
PT (10 cups) stock</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">¼
LB piece bacon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">1
LB sorrel, coarsely chopped</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">2
endives, sliced</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">1
½ oz. (1/2 cup) spearmint, chopped</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">2
oz. (4 TBS) butter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">4
TBS (1/2 cup) cream</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Boil
the peas in the stock with the bacon, sorrel, endives and spearmint. “When the
peas are tender, remove the bacon and chop it into small dice. Put the soup
through a food mill or coarse sieve and return it to the cleaned pan. Reheat,
stir in the butter and cream, add a little pepper and then put back the chopped
bacon. Pour into a tureen and serve. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The impressive machinery of the Victorian kitchen with the emphasis on utilitarian rather than decorative. </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
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Wars and short harvests, and the peace of 1815 brought no relief. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In a working man’s cottage fresh meat was a luxury
seen only on Sunday, and then only enough for a meat pudding or toad encased in
suet crust and boiled. Butter was replaced by lard </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">flavoured</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> with rosemary. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1846, the Corn Laws were repealed, lowering the
cost of bread and other staples. The huge industrial growth and the development
of scientific farming outstripped the experimental methods of the previous
century. Farmers could double their crops with chemical fertilizers and utilize
new ways of feeding cattle during the winter months with cottonseed, linseed
cakes and similar concentrates. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The demand for cheap food and the growth of free
trade ended English agriculture based on wheat forever. Within fifty years,
most of the English were eating food they had bought, rather than grown or
reared themselves – the greater part of it imported. Spices came from India. Australian
beef began to arrive, posing a few problems in the kitchen. It was tougher than homegrown English cattle
and not refrigerated until Scottish immigrant in Australia, James Harrison made
a practical ice maker in 1880. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Replacing the sailing ships by steam trawlers improved
the fish supply. Salt and pickled herrings gave way to fresh fish as the
railroads improved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">A method of preserving food in glass bottles by heat-processing
was discovered by a Frenchman, Nicholas Appert. Bottled sauces became popular. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The love apple, or tomato first grown as decoration,
arrived as a food from North Carolina. Vegetable marrows and pumpkins appeared.
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">These and other changes changed the English diet
dramatically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">While some old-fashioned people stuck to the
eighteenth century breakfast of cold meat, cheese and beer; the majority of
English adopted porridge, fish bacon and eggs, toast and marmalade that have
appeared on English breakfast tables for a hundred years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The old supper disappeared, to be replaced by
luncheon in the middle of the day, which began as a glass of wine and a biscuit
and developed into a full meal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Dinner at seven underwent a change too. Since
Medieval times the course of an English dinner had been spread out on the
table, all the dishes of one course at the same time. Dishes, called removes,
near the ends of the table could be replaced, but the others remained until the
course ended. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The rich variety of foods hawked on the streets of
London in the mid-19<sup>th</sup> century were: oranges, nuts, watercress,
pickled whelks, oysters; hot eels, sheeps’ trotters, pea soup, fried fish, ham
sandwiches, hot green peas, kidney puddings, boiled meat puddings, beef, mutton
or kidney pies, baked potatoes, tarts or rhubarb, currants, gooseberries,
cherries, apples, damsons, cranberries and mince pies, plum duff (dough) and
plum cake, gingerbreads, Chelsea buns, muffins and crumpets, candy rocks,
sticks, cough drops and ices and ice creams, tea coffee, coca, ginger beer, hot
elder cordial or wine, lemonade, curds and whey, rice milk, and milk straight
from the cow in the parks. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Book of Household Management</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> by Isabella Beeton,
first serialized in the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine and published in book
form in 1861, is possibly the most widely known of English cookery books. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Isabella Mary Mayson was the eldest of twenty-one
children siblings and step-siblings. Her step-father, Henry Dorling, was the manager
of the grandstand at Epsom in its heyday. The family actually lived in the
grandstand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1855 Isabella married the publisher of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Domestic Magazine</i>. Isabella worked
as an editor. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Book of Household
Management </i>has proved a great source for social historians. Hers was the
first cookery book to include colonial dishes – Indian and Australian – and it
has seasonal menus with lists of dishes keyed to available produce. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Overwork and childbearing wore Mrs Beeton out;
paying her husband’s debts and bearing her fourth child led to her death in
1865 at the age of twenty-nine. But her book, now over one hundred years old, with
a facsimile published in 1968 sold in America as well as England, now carries
on her good work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Maggi Andersen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The Reluctant Marquess available on Amazon</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Reluctant-Marquess-ebook/dp/B007I8N2W0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336292623&sr=8-1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">http://www.amazon.com/The-Reluctant-Marquess-ebook/dp/B007I8N2W0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336292623&sr=8-1</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Resource:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Seven
Centuries of English Cooking – A Collection of Recipes by Maxime de la Falaise Grove
Press NY.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The Victorian Home, Jenni Calder, B T Batsford Ltd, London. </span></i></div>
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