The Women of Pemberley follows the lives of five women, some from the beloved works of Jane Austen, some new from the author's imagination, into a new era of post industrial revolution England, at the start of the Victorian Age. Vast changes are in motion, as they were throughout this dynamic cen...
The gentleman into whose chambers they were ushered by a clerk of some considerable antiquity was Mr Gunning Jr., who had long succeeded his father. Far from being the crusty old lawyer Catherine had feared meeting, he turned out to be a most agreeable young man and a friend of Mr Jonathan Bi...
The Prime Minister, with his able Chancellor Gladstone and his enlightened Foreign Minister Lord Russell, believed it was in England’s interest to take up the Italian cause and did so most assiduously throughout the year and into the next. In the lobbies and corridors of W...
It had been difficult work for the horses and their driver on the roads, and it was easy to see how the accident had happened. As the dawn struggled through a mass of low clouds weighed down with the sleet that was falling all around them, the gates of Barton Park loomed up though the mist and th...