Double wedding or double disaster? November 18th, 1812 “How thrilling!” a woman in the pew behind said in hushed excitement. “A double wedding!” Caroline Bingley rolled her eyes heavenward and leant closer to her sister. “Double disaster, more like,” she whispered. Although she had no choice but to attend this farce, she did not have …
This means war! November 15, 1811 While she played the Italian tunes, which she knew by memory, Caroline had also been watching Mr. Darcy – normally one of her favorite occupations. On this occasion, however, she had derived little enough pleasure from it. For it seemed to her that the gentleman in question, rather than …
This month’s theme is “Blossoming Love.” I’m not sure this post fits, except that before love can bloom, two people have to find each other. Right? Today you might look for your perfect match online. Back in the day it was the personal ads of the newspaper. A while ago, I came across a clever …
Rosings Park preview #4 and cover reveal, by Jack Caldwell Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. I’m a generous guy. back with Chapter 3 of ROSINGS PARK: A Story of Jane Austen’s Fighting Men. Post one may be found HERE, post two HERE, and post three HERE. You’ll remember from last time that things are not …
Rosings Park preview #2, by Jack Caldwell Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. I’m back with Chapter 1 of ROSINGS PARK: A Story of Jane Austen’s Fighting Men. Post one (which may be found HERE) gave some backstory as well as a couple of clues to not only this book but the upcoming BROTHER OF THE …
Rosings Park preview #1, by Jack Caldwell Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. Finally, after over a decade of promises, I have completed my follow-up to THE THREE COLONELS: Jane Austen’s Fighting Men. After much deliberation, I have entitled it ROSINGS PARK: A Story of Jane Austen’s Fighting Men. Just kidding. The first thing I came …
Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. This month, our theme is “Will You?” That’s right, it’s a month full of proposals, the good, the bad, and the ugly! Most will probably melt your pudding, but you might just see a stinker in the bouquet. We all need to laugh, right? Okay, I didn’t write the above. …
I hope you are enjoying a relaxing August! I have been up to my eyebrows in a manuscript—of course—so all my creative juices are currently channeled into formatting a file for publication. My husband is hoping I finish soon so I can organize the office! The book I’m launching is Nowhere But North, which is …
Greetings, everybody! Jack Caldwell here. As you may know, my second published novel, THE THREE COLONELS: Jane Austen’s Fighting Men—a grand sequel to two of Jane Austen’s works: Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility—was originally published on-line. What you may not know is I also wrote a vignette about the characters in that story …
Our Austen Variations theme for June is weddings! Since I’ve been having so much fun posting “Tuesday Trivia” on our Facebook page lately, I thought I’d kick the month off with some Regency-era English wedding trivia followed by a short P&P wedding scene. Did you know that… Until the late 1880’s, weddings by law had to …
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