My favourite activity around Christmas is rereading or relistening to some of my favourite Christmas themed novels, like the three novels I’d like to share with you today: A Christmas Carol, Mr Dickens and His Carol, and A Holiday by Gaslight, A Victorian Christmas Novella.
Tag Archives: Charles Dickens
#JaneEyreFF Rereading Jane Eyre in #FlashFiction #Chapter5 #VictorianFiction #CharlotteBronte
Jane Eyre in Flash Fiction Chapter 5 My First Day at Lowood Institution I left Gateshead Hall at six am on the morning of the 19th of January. At twilight, after a 50-mile coach journey, we descended a valley into a dark, windy wood. A servant accompanied me along a pebbly path and into aContinue reading “#JaneEyreFF Rereading Jane Eyre in #FlashFiction #Chapter5 #VictorianFiction #CharlotteBronte”
Carrot Ranch #FlashFiction ‘Forest Bathing’ #99Words #MondayBlogs
This post was written in response to Charli Mills at Carrot Ranch’s weekly #99 word Flash Fiction Challenge. This week’s prompt is to write a story about forest bathing. You can use the Japanese term, Shinrin Yoku. Check out other entries or take part yourself! Inspirational Walks The Verger at Rochester Cathedral heard the author’sContinue reading “Carrot Ranch #FlashFiction ‘Forest Bathing’ #99Words #MondayBlogs”
K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge #CosPhoChal ‘Portraits’
This Monday’s theme is ‘Portraits’. I remembered that I have some lovely pictures of portraits I took at the National Portrait Gallery in London, a lesser known gem, right next to the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, and others I took at Charles Dicken’s Museum at Doughty Street, London. Here I am as close as I’ll everContinue reading “K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge #CosPhoChal ‘Portraits’”
#CarrotRanch #FlashFiction Challenge: Magwitch the Migrant @Charli_Mills
This post was written in response to Charli Mills at Carrot Ranch’s weekly Flash Fiction Challenge February 23, 2017 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a migration story. It can imagine the dusty or arctic trails of the frontiers past or look to the travel across the galaxy. What issue about modernContinue reading “#CarrotRanch #FlashFiction Challenge: Magwitch the Migrant @Charli_Mills”
Happy Birthday Charles Dickens! #amreading #amreviewing Oliver Twist
Today’s a very special day for English literature. On this day, 7th February, in 1812 , Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, United Kingdom. On this special day, I’d like to suggest you read one of his novels, so I’m including my ‘special tribute review’ of Oliver Twist, which you can read for free asContinue reading “Happy Birthday Charles Dickens! #amreading #amreviewing Oliver Twist”
Carrot Ranch #FlashFiction Challenge: Creating Jane Eyre
This post was written in response to Charli Mills Weekly Flash Fiction Challenge, at Carrot Ranch. January 26, 2017 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story using the theme, “women create.” It can be art, sewing, ideas, babies. What is at the heart of women as creators? Go where the promptContinue reading “Carrot Ranch #FlashFiction Challenge: Creating Jane Eyre”
Carrot Ranch #FlashFiction Challenge: The Mourner
This post was written in response to Charli Mills’ weekly Flash Fiction Challenge. January 12, 2017 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that expresses a strong concern, something to give a crap about. Something that brings out the feeling to stand up. How can you use it to showContinue reading “Carrot Ranch #FlashFiction Challenge: The Mourner”
#WordlessWednesday & #OneLinerWednesday On Life, Birth and Death
(Almost) Wordless Wednesday. Birth: The source of the Spanish River Ebro, the second longest river in the Iberian peninsula, in Fontibre (in Spanish the source of a river is called its birth: nacimiento). Death: Ancient Cemetery next to the Romanic style Visigothic church at Retortillo, Cantabria, Spain built on the ruins of a Roman necropolisContinue reading “#WordlessWednesday & #OneLinerWednesday On Life, Birth and Death”
1 Day to Book Launch of ‘Midsummer at Eyre Hall’: My Happy Ending, Thanks to Camus, Orson Welles and My Daughter.
Tomorrow is the big day. The Eyre Hall Trilogy is officially complete and available for purchase and download on Amazon as a Kindle ebook. My proof for the paperback version of Midsummer at Eyre Hall arrived today. I’ll be checking it through carefully, and it will be available to purchase in print before the endContinue reading “1 Day to Book Launch of ‘Midsummer at Eyre Hall’: My Happy Ending, Thanks to Camus, Orson Welles and My Daughter.”
Rereading Jane Eyre 