Georgian Terrace Houses
Terrace houses dominated the London landscape during the Regency. Almost the entire London population, rich and poor alike, lived in one or another version of the terrace house.
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Inspiring Jane Austen’s Dragons: The Dragon of Loschy Hill
Sometimes you just stumble into a piece of research that totally expands your story world and takes your tale in directions you would not have foreseen. The Dragon of Loschy Hill is one of those cases.
Continue reading →Down the Research Rabbit Hole: Grog
While writing Dragon Beyond the Pale, the research rabbit hole led me to grog. Why do you think I went there and what could it have to do with dragons?
Continue reading →Research Rabbit Hole: Hard Tack
The research rabbit hole led me to hard tack or ships biscuits. Why do you think I went there and what could it have to do with dragons?
Continue reading →Of course, there were dragons
Of course there were dragons—that’s how I introduce Jane Austen’s Dragons. It is rather a bold claim. How can I say that? I confess, you’re not the first person to ask me that with a decidedly skeptical look. After all, you’ve devoured ever one of Austen’s works cover to cover, multiple times and there’s nary a dragon scale from “It’s a truth universally acknowledged to… “With they Gardiners they were on most intimate terms…” On … Continue reading →