Hello everyone. I hope you’ve all recovered from the icy weather and the blackouts by now. It seems everything has been conspiring to make our lives more difficult in the past year. Let’s hope February will be a turning point and things will start looking up. The theme of the month on Austen Variations is …
Love and hate. Jane Austen wrote about them both, sometimes in the same novel, and about the same characters. The love/hate relationship that first comes to mind is of course that of Darcy and Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice. The word hate is used several times in describing Lizzy’s early prejudiced feelings about Mr. Darcy. …
There are a few love -hate relationships in this little outtake from my latest WIP from my Jane Austen’s Dragons series. Actually it is not quite an outtake, but a little scene I wrote to better understand what was going on in the characters and the world, and wow, did I get a big surprise …
Well, the wild winds and snow of Storm Darcy that had us in its thrall here in the UK are over, and we are back to our normal February weather. Much as I love Darcy, I am glad the storm is gone and the snow clouds have lifted. Like all angst, it’s okay if it …
I hope you had a lovely Valentine’s Day, finding some appropriate way to celebrate, even in these difficult times. I’m thinking that as long as there was chocolate and a good book or movie involved, it was a winner. If your sweetheart was snuggled up beside you too, so much the better! This month, some …
Mr. Darcy put down his book and his face lighted as his wife entered the library. “So, you have found me,” he greeted her with a smile. “That is not a matter of wonder. Where else would you be likely to be found, such a dark wet day as this, save the library?” “Very true, …
Hello everyone! It’s been a crazy beginning of 2021 already but I’ve finally gotten He’s Always Been the One finalized and published. Yes, I’ve already hit publish on the ebook so hopefully, it will be live soon!!! I’ll be formatting the paperback so I can have that out within the next couple of weeks. In …
It’s snowing here in the South of England with blizzard-type conditions, so this would be a great time for Darcy and Elizabeth to be stuck indoors together in an isolated hut somewhere where they would have to sleep under the only blanket if they wanted to stay warm… In any case, our current storm is …
Hi! I hope you’ve enjoyed the Austen Variation posts on ‘January 2021 Retrospective and Prospective’. The ‘looking back’ part of my post is going to be pretty short, mostly because I’ve spent most of 2020 looking back and thinking of the times when we were free to roam, meet, hug, chat and have tea and …
This month, we have been taking a look back at the last year and taking a moment to collect our breath as we plunge into 2021. My 2020 was… unique. My kids aren’t getting any younger, so we did what we could to enjoy them this year. In the time B.C. (Before Covid) my daughter …
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