Author Archives: LucciaGray

Dressing Up for an Eventful Week

I don’t usually write diary-like entries to my blog, but today is going to be an exception, because I’ve had a strange and eventful week, which I’d like to share with all of you. A lot of work, fun, excitement, and dressing up has been going on… Sunday 26th was great! I spent the dayContinue reading “Dressing Up for an Eventful Week”

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Halloween Festivities in All Hallows at Eyre Hall

All Hallows at Eyre Hall, the sequel to Jane Eyre, takes up Jane’s story as Mrs. Rochester, twenty-two years after her marriage to Edward. The novel, which begins on the 30th of October, 1865, is set on and around the AllHallowtide, or the Hallowmas season, a three day period during which Western Christians honour theContinue reading “Halloween Festivities in All Hallows at Eyre Hall”

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The Truth about Halloween: Origin, Symbolism, and Evolution of a Timeless Festival

Although many people think Halloween is a modern, commercial invention, it is in fact one of the most ancient, mysterious, and persistent traditions in the British Isles, which has naturally undergone many changes through the ages, and spread to other parts of the world.     Originally called Samhain, later All Hallows Eve, and finallyContinue reading “The Truth about Halloween: Origin, Symbolism, and Evolution of a Timeless Festival”

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Spine-chilling Characters: The Sin-Eater

One of the most enjoyable aspects of writing historical novels is the investigation process. Searching for those hidden bits of information that make research feel like a treasure hunt!  All Hallows at Eyre Hall, is a Victorian Gothic Romance, and sequel to Jane Eyre. It is set on and around Halloween, 1865, in a mysteriousContinue reading “Spine-chilling Characters: The Sin-Eater”

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Marriage and Fiction: Reader, I married him…

The Last chapter of Jane Eyre begins with these four words, “Reader, I married him.” As if with marriage the narrator wished to close the story, which started when Jane was a ten-year old orphan living unhappily with her cruel aunt, Mrs. Reed, and spiteful cousins; Georgina, Eliza, and John. She later went through theContinue reading “Marriage and Fiction: Reader, I married him…”

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Q&A Luccia Gray All Hallows at Eyre Hall @LucciaGray

Originally posted on Lit World Interviews:
All Hallows at Eyre Hall Luccia Gray “All Hallows is believable and well-written, true to the “voice” of Brontë, and well-researched. In fact, at times I thought Charlotte Brontë was writing this; that is how fabulous a writer Luccia Gray is. This is not to say that she is…

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The Ideal Fictional Hero: Just for fun!

Another excuse to introduce you to some of my favorite fictional characters, authors and novels. In no particular order… The most faithful and dashing fictional hero has to be Jane Austen’s Captain Wentworth, in Persuasion. He proposed to Anne Elliot, but he was rejected because her family thought he wasn’t good enough. Wentworth returned toContinue reading “The Ideal Fictional Hero: Just for fun!”

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Guest Luccia Gray: Clothes in Jane Eyre’s Time.

I’d like to introduce you to fellow blogger, and writer, Noelle Granger, author of an entertaining, 5-Star detective novel, Death in a Red Canvas Chair, whose protagonist, sleuth, nurse, mother, and police consultant, Rhe Brewster, has become my favourite amateur detective. Look out for the second installment, Death in a Dacron Sail. The cover revealContinue reading “Guest Luccia Gray: Clothes in Jane Eyre’s Time.”

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Unhappy Birthday

You would have been 51 today. I would have phoned. You would have said ‘Hi, Lil!’ We would have chatted, And laughed, and gossiped. Hours later, ‘I would have said, ‘Bye, El!’ It would have been so special. Nobody else would have understood Our private jokes, Our childhood fears, Our secret dreams… I wouldn’t haveContinue reading “Unhappy Birthday”

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