Author: Barbara Cornthwaite
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A Match for Margaret Dashwood, part 6
Hello again! I’m back with the final section of my work-in-progress, an epistolary novella with characters from Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey! If you missed the first five parts (or need to refresh your memory about what’s going on), you can read the previous sections here. * * * * * * * * * * *…
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A Match For Margaret Dashwood, part 5
Hello again! I’m back with the next section of my work-in-progress, an epistolary novella with characters from Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey! If you missed the first four parts (or need to refresh your memory on what’s going on), you can read the previous sections here. * * * * * * * *…
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A Match for Margaret Dashwood, Part 4
Hello again! I’m back with the next section of my work-in-progress, an epistolary novella with characters from Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey! If you missed the first three parts (or need to refresh your memory on what’s going on), you can read the previous sections here. * * * * * * * *…
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A Match For Margaret Dashwood, Part 3
Hello again! I’m back with the next section of my work-in-progress, an epistolary novella with characters from Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey! If you missed the first two parts (or need to refresh your memory on what’s going on), you can read the previous sections here. * * * * * * *…
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A Match for Margaret Dashwood, Part 2
Here’s a link to Part 1 Captain Walter Jennings to Captain Frederick Wentworth: Dear Wentworth, Your letter followed me to London, where I am staying with my sister, Mrs. Lacey. I would not be staying long if I had a choice, but she is a widow and not in the best of health. My presence…
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A Match for Margaret Dashwood
Hello again everyone! It’s been a while! Life was crazy there for a while with various family health issues. It’s gotten a bit better, so I’m able to write again. Many thanks to the bloggers who filled in for me in the last few months! I’m writing a new story: a spinoff of Sense and…
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Christmas Traditions and JAFF
I love to learn about the Christmas traditions of other cultures. When I married my husband, who is from Ireland, I asked him what uniquely Irish holiday traditions he grew up with. “Well, people got drunk a lot,” he said. We decided to skip that one. Our six children are adopted from various countries, which…
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Jane Austen and Thanksgiving
As an American who lives in Ireland, I miss Thanksgiving. It’s not a national holiday here, so the day after Halloween, the scary ghosts and witches are replaced by all things Christmas. I do love Christmas, but I long for the interlude of gratitude that Thanksgiving represents. It can be tricky for expats who want…
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So Very, Very Ill
My youngest daughter has been in the hospital for a few weeks with a serious, but not life-threatening, illness. She is improving, but slowly. I’ve been staying near the hospital with her (a massive thank you to everyone who has ever given to the Ronald McDonald House charity—what a blessing to have a room there!).…
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A Letter from Caroline Bingley
Supposing, at the end of Persuasion, Lady Russell decided to find a wife for Sir Walter Elliot, and selected for him the most desperate single woman of her acquaintance? I hinted at such a thing at the end of Much Ado About Persuasion, and this is how I imagine it might go. From Caroline Bingley…