Retrospective & Anticipation – Jane Austen’s Fighting Men, by Jack Caldwell Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. This month, we Austen Variations authors are doing retrospectives of our work, focusing on 2020. A lousy year, to be sure, but I did publish TWO books and an audiobook! PERSUADED TO SAIL, a sequel to Persuasion, came out …
Launch of ROSINGS PARK: A Story of Jane Austen’s Fighting Men, by Jack Caldwell Merry Christmas, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. Years ago, back in the dark ages of JAFF, my beautiful wife Barbara challenged to write an Austenseque story. That story became THE THEE COLONELS: Jane Austen’s Fighting Men. The story was audacious at the …
While there is no way to know for certain who made up Jane Austen’s circle of acquaintance during her lifetime, it was highly likely that Black Britons were among those with whom she would have been familiar. The Earliest Black Britons Evidence of Black Britons exists all the way back to Roman Britain. Archeological analysis …
Preview of PERSUADED TO SAIL, selections from Chapter 3 Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. For your reading pleasure, I am posting selected passages from my long-awaited sequel to Jane Austen’s Persuasion. PERSUADED TO SAIL begins immediately after the wedding of Captain Frederick Wentworth and Miss Anne Elliot. It also takes place after Napoleon Bonaparte’s shocking …
Preview of PERSUADED TO SAIL, Prologue and Chapter 1 Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. As you may know, I’ve been working on a sequel to Jane Austen’s last published novel, the wonderful Persuasion. Many years ago, I came up with something I placed on the fan fiction boards. When I started publishing my works, I …
They say never go shopping for food when you’re hungry. Writing a post on Georgian dishes when you’re hungry isn’t the best idea either. Luckily, I can’t nip into the kitchen to snack on plovers’ eggs, Nelson’s pudding or oyster patties, so I’m probably safe, at least for now. These were just a few of …
Was Mr. Collins’ proposal as outrageous as modern readers believe? Believe it or not, it contained all the hallmarks of a proper Regency era proposal. How is that possible? Check out this article on Random Bits of Fascination and find out.
During the Federal Era in America, a time corresponding to the Regency Era in England, the biggest holiday of the year was Thanksgiving. At that time, more Americans lived on farms than in cities, and with the grain harvested, the fruit preserved, and the pig butchered, it was time to join with family and friends …
“Sense and Sensibility I have just finished reading; it certainly is interesting, & you feel quite one of the company. I think Maryanne & me are very like in disposition, that certainly I am not so good, the same imprudence, &c, however remain very like.” – Princess Charlotte of Wales Here’s a hint for my next book: …
If you are ill, injured, or pregnant and live in England during the Regency Era, who do you call for help and what would they do to diagnose and treat you? Except in obstetrics, medical care did not change in any fundamental way during the 150 years between 1700 and 1850. There were inventions, such as …
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