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Aug.11.2011
When THE WOLF AND THE LAMB, Book One of the Berkeley Trilogy, was a Work in Progress, I described it as a biographical novel, a recognised genre. Several months after publication, the tag was changed to 'novelised biography'. This doesn't fit under a ready-made heading, but more...
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May.05.2011
"They shall never get the marriage chain around my neck!"
(continued from last episode )
Mr Carrington was taken aside and the plan to marry outlined. The need for reticence was stressed. Berkeley would be obliged for his services as a witness. William Tudor, who had returned from a...
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Apr.30.2011
A cunning plot to fox the powers-that-be
Next day, Berkeley went straight to the offices of the Commissary of Surrey and swore an affidavit concerning his identity and lawful fitness, and that of his intended spouse, to be joined in Holy Matrimony. The Deputy in charge was Thomas Champion...
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Jan.14.2011
Today's announcement (January 14, 2011) that Mrs Daisy Berkeley, wife of Mrs Charles Berkeley, Director of Berkeley Castle, has given birth to a daughter, has me wavering between goosebumps and tears. They are naming her Mary.
This will be the first Mary to live there since...
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Oct.24.2010
continued from (2) and (1)
Mary's conscience is smitten as she wonders whether two wrongs can ever make a right.
Berkeley sanded his handiwork, blew upon the paper and laid it down carefully to dry. Meanwhile, the Banns were secreted in a long redundant Book of Banns. They were placed between two...
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Jul.06.2010
“This is a tiresome business, Prescott. I can settle to nothing.”
The Captain regarded his host’s half-eaten plate of kidneys and bacon and deduced that something serious was amiss....
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Jul.01.2010
Mary was to look back on those few days filled with air and light and blossom buds as through a magnifying glass. For, soon, she was sentenced to a further spell of seclusion in different...
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Feb.26.2010
(continued from Wednesday's post) ...Mary broke off and bit her lip. She averted her gaze from the fascinated maid, trying to staunch a wave of embarrassment. That the girl’s name was really Tudor gave the situation a compelling twist! “I entreat you to stay in Gloucestershire among those who...
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Feb.24.2010
She was born a butcher's daughter, loved by a lawyer, proposed to by a Prince and abducted by an Earl...
Things came to a head that October. One morning, Mary looked into the schoolroom upon her two elder sons, Fitz and Freddy (Maurice Frederick), to enquire of Mrs Price how they were...
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Feb.16.2010
Courtesy of Berkeley Castle
(Excerpt)
In the drawing room, the medley of voices swelled and ebbed like a flight of drones, interspersed with bellows of laughter and strident opinion.
“Tis plain as the nose on your face,...
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