RosemaryMorris.HistoricalNovelist

  I thank those of you who shared names of desceased novelists. I made added some of their books to a list of ones I want to re-read. What are your favourite classics? Mine include, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Rudyard Kipling's Kim and Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbevilles. I also enjoy dipping into Jerrfrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and re-reading Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

  About forty years after some authors left their bodies, there are some whose novels are as enjoyable today as they were when first published. Two of the novelists whose books I re-read from time to time, are Elizabeth Goudge and Georgette Heyer. Do you have favourite authors whose books you read again? Like Comment Share

  I am re-reading the autobiography of Elizabeth Goudge, who among many other enthralling novels, wrote J.K.Rowling's favourite children's novel, The Little White Horse, which, since childhood I've read many times. In a chapter with the title Storytelling she wrote. "A book existing in the mind is one thing, enclosed there it is delightful company but when the glow beccomes an explosive personallity demanding to get out that is quite another. It must be got out or the writer will go mad, but getting the thing down on paper is a grinding slog. The thought of starting the process yet again fills one with dark despair. ... I don't know what other writers do in this miserable condition. I only know what I do. Sit down at the appointed time for work and stare in terror at the empty sheet of paper before me. How many of these blank, white pages must be covered with hideous black marks before the book is finished? Hundreds of them." Like Comment Share

  Ms McGill skilfully weaves her timeslip novel which takes the reader from near Stirling in the present day to dark age Scotland. Andrew McAlister, a self-made Australian millionaire in Melbourne, is summoned to his family’s ancestral castle in Scotland, by his aunts. His uncle, the laird, from whom he will inherit the property and title is bed-ridden near death. His personal assistant, Elizabeth Parker, who reads historical non-fiction about Scottish history and law and speaks Gaelic, persuades him to take her with him. When Andrew arrives, he is shocked when he enters the building. It is dilapidated, icy cold and needs repair. Liz wants to visit all the places of historical interest within a hundred mile radius. His aunt tells him: “…in spring heather covers the hills with purple. Some foreigners think it is a savage land, but we’ve hidden glens where torrents of water rushes through them. An’ there’s gently rolling hills and mighty mountains. Liz says the castle is steeped in...

      Tuesday’s Child Book Three of Seven loosely connected series Heroines born on Different Days of the Week.   Rosemary Morris   Published by Book We Love Harriet Stanton followed the drum until the deaths of her husband and father, army officers in the war against Napoleon Bonaparte. Destitute, on the verge of starvation, she returns to England, with her three-year-old son, Arthur. Although she has never met her father-in-law, the Earl of Pennington, with whom her late husband had cut all ties, for Arthur’s sake, Harriet decides to ask Pennington for help. Turned away from his London house by servants, she is rescued by Georgianne Tarrant, who founded an institution to help soldiers’ widows and orphans.   Desperate for an heir, the earl welcomes Harriet, and Arthur whose every wish he grants. At first, Harriet is grateful to her father-in-law, but, as time goes by, she is locke...

  What are you reading? I am reading Shadow on The Crown by Patricia Bracewell, an epic tale of seduction, war and unrequited love in Aethelred's reign.

 

Rosemary Morris   eBooks are on SALE for three-quarters OFF the regular price from the 5 th March   until the 11th at Smashwords!   https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/bwlmorris   Rosemary Morris’ classic novels   are set in Edward II’s reign, Queen Anne Stuart’s reign 1702-1714 and the ever-popular Regency era and published by Books We Love, Ltd.   With firmly closed bedroom doors, the reader can relish the details of emerging romances.   You may also purchase her novels by going to her BWL Publishing Author page: https: bwlpublishing.ca/morris-rosemary .   To find out more about Rosemary and her novels please visit her website: www.rosmarymorris.co.uk