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23rd December 1922
Letter by Edith to her aunt. (Meant to post this on the day). [Saturday] December 23, 1922 Dear Auntie – It was good of you to send me in the book; it will help to pass a good many weary hours away, when my mind is more settled. At present I can’t think – I can’t even feel.…
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Attempts in Adulting
Okay. My original plan was to have a daily blog about writing my dissertation over the summer. But, as you can see, that did not happen. I have now finished my MLitt (I passed!), and am job-hunting (it’s anxiety-inducing). I might do a PhD (again in Creative Writing), in which case I would try to…
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9th January 2025: The Continued Fight for Edith Thompson
I’m almost a month late with this, but it feels important. 9th January. For the third year in a row I travelled to London for a couple of days to attend the annual memorial ceremony for Edith. (Photo taken after the ceremony on 9th January 2023, the 100th anniversary of Edith’s execution). Last year we…
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Crawleys on the Big Screen: The Downton Abbey Film
(MAJOR SPOILERS!) The first time I watched this film I described it as ‘the most endearing pile of chaos I’ve ever watched’. In a sense, I still feel that way. It has an implausibility to it that I can’t shake. Perhaps it’s only endearing if you are a fan of the series and come to…
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Leveret
This is a poem I wrote about 8 years ago when Dad found a baby hare in our garden. Fawny-furred and tawny-eyed, As soft as heather is your silky hide. And such a precious little thing are you And delicate in the same way as glass I am afraid the world in which you bide…
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Danvers
Sometimes when scandalous or tragic things happen, they find their way into local folklore, and sometimes that includes being recorded in song. It’s that type of thing that inspired this poem. It tells the story of Daphne du Maurier’s (13th May 1907 – 19th April 1989) Rebecca (1938), Mrs Danvers being the de Winter’s sinister…
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The Sound of Music
A fact about me is that I love musicals. The Sound of Music is one of my favourites, and back when I held ambitions to be a musical theatre performer, I wanted to one day portray Maria. (I also wanted to be Marius in Les Miserables, but that’s another story). For anyone that doesn’t know,…
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Li’l’ Update
Since I last blogged (April 2023) quite a bit has happened. I’ve gone back to university, I’m working on the final draft of Dancing with Edith, and the WW1 novel I’ve been trying to write for 8 years that I thought might take me my whole life to write is actually going somewhere. I’m doing…
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An Actual Manuscript
An author friend who is going to read the first draft requested a printed out version. Surreal moment. Was going to share a spare page from the printing, but just read it and realised it’s a spoiler, basically the only spoiler in the entire book. Looking forward to a bit of a break while I…
The Hopeful Edwardian 