As the story I am currently working on is set in the romantic, thatched-roofed village of Wroxton in regency Oxfordshire, England, I went on a quest for old online maps of that area, looking for roads, terrain and surrounding communities. And, not for the first time, I found Rootsweb to be a great resource! Traditionally a …
In my last post on Research History Using School Annuals, regarding yearbooks for family history, I mentioned using old school yearbooks as a resource for character and setting development for writing fiction. Why? If you’re planning a book, set in Michigan, for example, in 1945, old school annuals provide a wealth of information about Michigan, or …
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Old yearbooks are very useful when it comes to researching your own family. But for writers they are a huge resource of historical information about a specific town, era and a pool of ideas for character development. I have used old yearbooks for all of the above. School annuals, or yearbooks, have been around since …
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Happy Thursday! Here’s an embroidered table runner I inherited from a house that had been in our family for 90 years. It’s large – 24 X 60 inches of coarse muslin. I love the pattern – very spring-like.
Jane Austen’s Guide to Good Manners – Compliments, Charades & Horrible Blunders, by Josephine Ross For those of us who write regency period books or just want the skinny on all things Jane Austen, this is a handy reference! It’s short – only a bare 133 pages, including romantic-Austenesque illustrations by Henrietta Webb. The writing …
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I am completing a historical romance, set in the regency English countryside with another book in the planning stages. I hope to have one of my books published soon, and, other than screaming the news to my patient husband, this will be the first place I announce the upcoming publication, once that dream becomes a …
When I was seven, the woman who had raised my mother died, leaving Mom the 1830s Greek Revival in upstate New York that she had inherited about 1910. Built as a wedding present, the house was in our family from about 1900 to the early 70s. Mom took me and one of my brothers to …