Author: Corrie Garrett
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Propriety and Piquet
Piquet I find particularly interesting, mainly because gentlemen in a club, confidently blowing past safe blood-alcohol levels, would do this level of mental math on the fly!
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Mary Elliot vs. Lizzy Bennet + An Excerpt
We love ridiculous characters, and Austen provides them in plenty! When I was looking for inspiration for my next story, I decided to focus on three of them–Mr. Collins, Caroline Bingley, and Mary Elliot (from Persuasion). I tried to write every scene with one of these characters being silly, pompous, oblivious, etc., each in their…
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Somerset House and J.M.W. Turner
From your Regency readings, you may be familiar with Somerset House and the Summer Exhibition, a lavish and popular yearly art show. A catalog (and therefore entry) could be had for a shilling, and everyone who was anyone in London would have gone to see the exhibition at some point. While I haven’t used it…
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Tunbridge Wells and Textured Settings
One of my favorite things about writing JAFF is researching new places for my characters to visit. I have only been to England once, when I was thirteen, and sadly I hadn’t yet fallen in love with Jane Austen. My older sister was doing watercolors of cottages and ecstatically pointing out literary connections to almost…