I hope to put up some articles about historical "real life" to illustrate the times when my stories are set.  I will be putting up something about the famous 18th Century beauty Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, and the Duke of Wellington
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I've just uploaded a short piece on the Empress Josephine, Napoleon I's first wife.  She is a very interesting character to me, and I wanted to use her in a novel so I wrote Court Lady, where she is a distant relative of the heroine, Corisande, who takes her into her household at Court as a lectrice or reader.  Corisande's duties would be to read to the Empress.. there was no TV in those days, and to assist her with administrative work and be a helping hand with her charities and artistic pat...
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My new Regency Romance has just been published by Rebecca J Vickery at Smashwords and Amazon.  I hope my readers will enjoy it.

Isabella Radcliffe is a lady but has no dowry.  She is forced to seek employment as a governess and companion to an old lady at a Cornish estate, while many young men of her class are away at the Peninsular Wars.  But she finds herself restless and bored and seeks relief from her boredom in dangerous riding and swimming alone.  She knows that she is not suited to s...

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