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Meet: Jane Dawkins |
Born in Palestine, raised in England, I came to the United States ‘for a couple of years’ almost thirty years ago. My husband, Chuck, and I live in Key West with the two most wonderful Golden Retrievers in the world. My love of Jane Austen’s works led me to a deeper interest in her life and the Regency period and finally resulted in my first book, Letters from Pemberley: The First Year, a sequel to Pride and Prejudice. What happened next? is a question that always comes to my mind after reading a good book or seeing a wonderful film and since P&P is my very favourite book of all time I had very decided ideas on the subject! The research and writing gave me enormous pleasure and satisfaction and when the book was so well received, that was a marvellous bonus. The strange thing was that I received more than a few emails and letters asking for more. Time and again I replied that the book was all I had to say on the subject. Nevertheless, a seed had been sown and nourished by all these requests, and eventually grew into More Letters from Pemberley: 1814-1819, taking the Bennets and Darcys to the end of the Regency period. My attempt to write in Miss Austen’s style and period was very important to me (also a very great challenge!) so that writing in my own voice with my own imagined characters in my last book, One Perfect Afternoon, a romance set in the same Regency period, was wonderfully liberating. For a while I was light-headed with the ability to change characters’ names, whether their hair was blonde or brown, curly or straight; whether they lived in the country or town, and on and on. It was enormous fun to write. I am just finishing another Regency romance, Lulie, where I am attempting to write about the darker side of that time by including the human costs and consequences of the Battle of Waterloo, as well as some aspects of life as a Jew in England then. Visit my website at Jane Dawkins.Com Sincerely, Jane Dawkins Some of my favourite books: Her Newest Releases! Author's Site - Jane Dawkins
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