Originally posted on hubilicious:
Welcome again to Bookworm Wednesdays! This time, a fellow blogger kindly (Luccia from Rereading Jane Eyre) asked me whether I were inclined to read her novel, and maybe also to review it after reading. And indeed, I was. (secretly totally freaking out – how exciting – being asked to write a…
Author Archives: LucciaGray
The Real First Thanksgiving
Originally posted on SaylingAway:
Much has been written about the first Thanksgiving which took place at Plimoth Colony. Here is some information that is probably closer to the truth. As usual, click on the pictures. The First Thanksgiving 1621, oil on canvas by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1899) The voyage from Plymouth, England, had…
Growing Up Pilgrim
Originally posted on SaylingAway:
I love my home town and decided to take the opportunity of the upcoming holiday to tell you a little about it and also disenchant you of some of the first Thanksgiving myths. I grew up in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and was lucky enough to be indoctrinated into Pilgrim ways from a…
There was no possibility of taking a walk that (November) day.
November is a dark and ominous month in Jane Eyre’s life. Firstly, she is locked in the red room, as a child, at Gateshead. Secondly, she is lonely at Thornfield Hall, before Rochester’s arrival. Finally she is leading a solitary life in Morton, while her cousin, whom she doesn’t love, proposes to her. Gateshead TheContinue reading “There was no possibility of taking a walk that (November) day.”
Cover Reveal! Death in a Dacron Sail by N. A. Granger
On an icy February morning, Rhe Brewster, an emergency room nurse with a nose for investigation, is called to a dock in the harbor of the small coastal town of Pequod, Maine. A consultant to the Pequod Police Department, Rhe is responding to a discovery by one of the local lobstermen: a fingerContinue reading “Cover Reveal! Death in a Dacron Sail by N. A. Granger”
Bite Size Memoir – It Made My Day!
Over the years, I’ve accompanied students on many eventful trips all over the world; some got lost, one travelled sans passport, another landed in the pilot’s cabin, lots got drunk, others saw ghosts… Honestly, I could write a book! The most memorable trip was to Italy with eighty mischievous adolescents who had made a pledgeContinue reading “Bite Size Memoir – It Made My Day!”
Book Review: All Hallows at Eyre Hall by Luccia Gray
Originally posted on S.K. Nicholls:
Coming of age at the Ethel Harpst Home, an orphanage in the North Georgia Mountains, when I first read Jane Eyre at fourteen, my primary focus on that book by Charlotte Bronte was Jane Eyre’s life. Her trials and tribulations facing loss and the strengths she relied on to…
Charlotte Bronte’s last love letter
‘To forbid me to write to you, to refuse to answer me, would be to tear from me from my only joy on earth, to deprive me of my last privilege _ a privilege I shall never consent willingly to surrender. Believe me, my master, in writing to me it is a good deed thatContinue reading “Charlotte Bronte’s last love letter”
The Value of Negative Reviews
Please take the poll at the end of this post! I was prepared for the inevitable. You can’t please everyone, and if your novel challenges traditional ideas on love, marriage, and literary archetypes, some readers are bound to disagree. Yes, it’s happened to me. I’ve received a one-star review :( My debut novel is myContinue reading “The Value of Negative Reviews”
Sequels, Prequels, Reinterpretations, Rewritings, and Writing Back…
When I am asked what my novel’s about, I reply briefly, “It’s a Victorian Gothic Romance, which takes place around All Hallows, at Eyre Hall, twenty-two years after Jane Eyre married Edward Rochester.” A typical reaction, before reading the novel, is: “Oh, so it’s a sequel / follow-up / spin-off of the original?” The answerContinue reading “Sequels, Prequels, Reinterpretations, Rewritings, and Writing Back…”
