At the weekend, I took my children to visit the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, Cornwall.
It’s a great museum, if you get the chance to visit – do.
They have a temporary exhibition on until July about the Titanic. I did enjoy the film Titantic (with Kate Winslet and Leonardo Di Caprio) and they had a [...]
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Titantic – the exhibition
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged costume, kate winslet, leonardo di caprio, national maritime museum, titanic, wreck on April 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A visit to Sudbury Hall
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Add new tag, BBC Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Hanbury, Kedleston Hall, Midsummer Eve at Rookery End, Museum of Childhood, National Trust, Sudbury Hall, The Duchess on April 22, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Last week, I spent a wonderful day visiting Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire
Sudbury was given to the Treasury in 1967 in part-payment of duties on the death of the 9th Lord Vernon. It was subsequently transferred to the National Trust and several of the principal rooms were redecorated under the supervision of the eminent [...]
Free ebook at www.escapewithabook.com
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ebook, emily bronte, free, wuthering heights on April 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
www.escapewithabook.com have released their first free ebook.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is now available to dowload from their website.
To get you in the mood for the up-coming TV adaptation later this year, why not have a read or re-read so you can say things like:
”That wasn’t in the book!”
or
”They changed that scene a bit…” as you [...]
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Home Receives Grant
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged elizabeth gaskell, grant, house, manchester on April 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This news story caught my eye:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8001410.stm
Elizabeth Gaskell’s home in Manchester has received a grant so it can be restored. I’m really pleased. Gaskell is one of my favourite authors, and though I haven’t been to the house yet, I do want to visit some time.
It’s also nice to see money being well spent on UK [...]
Juliet Archer Shortlisted for 2009 Melissa Nathan Award!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Juliet Archer, Lisa Jewell, Marian Keyes, Melissa Nathan Award, The Importance of Being... Emma on April 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
You know that story about Cinderella? Well, I feel like it’s happening to me! Not the Prince Charming part (I’ve met and married mine) but the bit about ’you shall go to the ball’.
In this case it’s the 2009 Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance ball – or rather award ceremony - on 10th June in London. [...]
Jane Austen and the Zombies!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Emma, Jane Austen, Juliet Archer, Keira Knightley, Louis Wise, Pride and Prejudice, The Importance of Being... Emma, The Sunday Times on April 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It seems to be Jane Austen week. Hot on the heels of Elizabeth Hanbury’s post yesterday, I felt I had to draw attention to an article in The Sunday Times intriguingly called ‘Pride and Prejudice as zombie pulp fiction’!
You can read the article here.
But that’s not all. At the end of the article, there’s a round-up of [...]
Was Jane Austen robbed of her real Mr. Darcy by her sister?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Elizabeth Hanbury, Jane Austen on April 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A new book – Jane Austen: An Unrequited Love by Andrew Norman – claims that Jane Austen’s insight into love and romance came not only from her relationship with Tom Lefoy, but from her unfulfilled romance with a clergyman called Samuel Bicknall.
Jane first met Samuel in 1798 when she was 23 and he was a [...]
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