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Freda Lightfoot: July 2015
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On Saturday I enjoyed an excellent talk by the Harlequin team. It was good to meet them since I’m currently writing for Mira Books, and enjoying working with them. They told us how they were looking out for page turners rather than brilliant prose, and how they channel them into the retail market either by ebooks, Indie stores or supermarkets, if you’re lucky. Hazel Gaynor, author of A Memory of Violets. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Author of 45 novels and over 50 short stories and articles.
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Freda Lightfoot: Big Flo’s Favourite Sayings
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Big Flo’s Favourite Sayings. Big Flo is loosely inspired by my grandmother, who was very much a strict Methodist and a stoic. She would stand in her pew at chapel every Sunday reciting: The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want, while her belly growled with hunger and she wondered what they could possibly find to eat for their tea. Here is a picture of Clara as a young woman, (on the left) with her sister Sarah, and her daughter, (my mum). These are some of her favourite sayings:. Be stoic - no complaints.
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Freda Lightfoot: June 2015
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Inspiration for Luckpenny Land. Where the winter snows freeze the mains water supply in the field below the house every winter, as well as the battery in her car as it stands buried in snow in the yard. So I used those wonderful two words that writers love: What if? I began by interviewing Cumbrian farmers, who are stoic, strong, taciturn, and a tad distrustful of. I also spent ages reading the newspapers of the period, finding out what was on people’s mind and how they coped. But then I love r...Luckpen...
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Freda Lightfoot: August 2014
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Fair Girls and Grey Horses - review. Fair Girls and Grey Horses. I hope not.’. Followed by Josephine writing Six Ponies. Fair Girls and Grey Horses, by Christine, Diana and Josephine Pullein-Thompson. Published by Allison and Busby. Enjoyed a lovely visit to the 2014 Southport Flower Show at the end of last week with lovely weather, as always. There were some gorgeous gardens and flower displays. As you can see here. We also enjoyed the dog display team. What clever, lively dogs they were, and they o...
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Royal Women: desember 2010
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Lørdag 25. desember 2010. Christina of Saxony, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. As I am Norwegian myself, I thought to present to you one of our queens, Christina of Saxony, or Christine av Sachsen as she is known as in Scandinavia. As she was also born on Christmas Day I thought it would be a nice fit to present her on this day as well. Christina was born on the 25. Of September. John became King of Denmark in 1481 and King of Norway in 1483. Christina was crowned together with her husband&#...Chris...
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Royal Women: november 2010
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Søndag 14. november 2010. Maria Theresa of Savoy. By Jean-Baptiste-André Gautier d'Agoty, 1775. She could have been a Queen of France had she not died, and she was the first of her generation to give birth to the next royal child, humiliating Marie Antoinette herself. Though Marie Thérèse of Savoy was not a liked figure at the French court, she was still a very important lady at court. Maria Theresa was born as Marie Thérèse the 31. Marie Thérèse gave birth to her first child, a son, only a year after he...
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Royal Women: oktober 2010
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Torsdag 28. oktober 2010. Photo from a tapestry). Blanche was born at Bolingbroke Castle on the 25. Of March in 1345. Her parents were Henry of Grostmont, the 1. Duke of Lancaster, and Isabel de Beaumont. She is described as to have been beautiful, with blonde hair, blue eyes, and she was a calm and peaceful person. She was married to her third cousin, John of Gaunt on the 19. When the bubonic plague struck in 1369, Blanche was one of its victims, and she died at the age of only 24, the 12. Her funeral a...
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Royal Women: Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset
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Onsdag 20. oktober 2010. Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset. In 1511 Anne came as a maid of honour to Queen Catherine, and in 1529 Edward Seymour (the brother of Queen Jane, yes) noticed her and fell in love with her. They were married in 1535 (Anne being his second wife, his first, Catherine, had led an affair with his father, woah! The Duchess of Somerset was described as being a “ violent woman". A "devilish woman and 'monstrous'. When Henry VIII died, Anne’s husband became Lord Protector, and sh...
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Royal Women: Christina of Saxony, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
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Lørdag 25. desember 2010. Christina of Saxony, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. As I am Norwegian myself, I thought to present to you one of our queens, Christina of Saxony, or Christine av Sachsen as she is known as in Scandinavia. As she was also born on Christmas Day I thought it would be a nice fit to present her on this day as well. Christina was born on the 25. Of September. John became King of Denmark in 1481 and King of Norway in 1483. Christina was crowned together with her husband&#...Chris...
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