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THE RAKE'S CHALLENGE

The Rake's Challenge

Lord Giles Maltravers, the Earl of Longwood, is weary of society life, duels and even his mistress.

Miss Anna Lawrence, inspired by Lord Byron’s poems, is determined to seek a life of travel and adventure.

Both decide to flee society. They meet fleetingly in unusual circumstances, and then again in Brighton, where life takes more unusual turns for both.

The King's Arms Inn. Prinny's favourite drinking hole in Brighton.

Thanks to Lady Catherine - A few useful Regency related sites

 A teaparty with Lady Catherine 

 is an excellent way to make new friends and have fun,  also to exchange ideas,
 learn about authors we haven't discovered before,    
and find useful websites dealing with Regency related topics.

                 

https://paulcouchman.co.uk/     For recipes and articles that take you back in time.

https://www.pinterest.com/CeruleanHMC/regency-portraits-of-men-1795-1830/

Regency portraits of women

          and a bit of Georgian Bling to  gladden the eye

                                                                  

Tea with Lady Catherine [ for those who know]

 

 You are most welcome to join me for 

tea with Lady Catherine

each day in the week beginning Monday, 26th February

  

'My River' - memories of childhood

MY RIVER

Remembering happy summer holidays in wild Wales

 

Enjoy a few minutes of nostalgia as I recall those times in 'My River'

on Wake Up Leo 15th February on BBC Radio Berkshire

(And across quite a few counties)

A variety of chats, stories and music.

[whisper - 'My River' starts at 40 minutes in ]

- Upload at 6-8pm on 95.4 FM, 104.1 FM, on Digital, BBC Sounds and :

https://bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0805r6w…

Repeated from 6pm on Saturday 17th February

https://t.co/EVHPzW0D75

"Persuasion" - The awakening of Frederick Wentworth

 

'Persuasion' - Jane Austen's tale about the stiflingly dull life of Anne Elliot, who at nineteen gave up her engagement to satisfy the strict and snobbish ideas of her class-obsessed father.

Eight years later, faded and quiet, what future does she have?

The pain of what might have been is made worse when Captain Wentworth returns and she has to see him apparently falling in love with a much younger girl.

But events make Frederick Wentworth realise how much he still values and admires Anne, and suddenly, he realises he still loves her. Only - is it now too late for him?

He pours out his feelings in a hastily scribbled letter, often considered the most romantic letter in all English literature.

“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.

I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.”

― Jane Austen,   Persuasion  

Tea and conversation with Lady Catherine and her guests.

 News for fans of Regency set stories

                    Regency Kisses - Lady Catherine's Salon....

...is a Facebook Group for readers and writers of Regency Romance, with a focus more on drama in the drawing room than in the bedroom. 

The membership continues to grow and there is much useful discussion, and sharing of pictures and details of information about that era. 

 I look forward to acting as a Guest Hostess at the Salon for a week in February 2024.

Jayne Davis and Gail Eastwood, two of the group's Patronesses, have recently published a Resource for writers of stories set in the Regency era : Writing Regency England.

Writing-Regency-England

Audiobook of 'The Rake's Challenge', a delightful Regency Romance

 

https://www.audiolibrix.de/en/Directory/Book/29837/Audiobook-The-Rake-s-Challenge-Beth-Elliott

Author:

Beth Elliott

Narrators:

Alice White, Synthesized Voice - Female

Content:

Unabridged (chapter list)

Length:

6:46 h

Format:

MP3 download (377 MB)

Language:

English

Publisher:

Lume Books (2021)

Genre:

Romance

Play sample  

Fussy Editor

Paws-on Editor

Me -       [ feeling pleased on completing dramatic scene]  Think I've nailed it. 

Editor -  No, no way, that clause needs more emotion... [and give that cat a bit of chicken, if it has to watch all that.]

 

Me -       OK Boss, [hours later after rewriting the scene] Is this better?

Editor - Wow! Hot stuff alright. If the cat has to sit through that, make it a bowlful of chicken.

 Me -       Anything you say, Ed, must keep it Paws not Claws.

Remembrance Day 11/ 11 / 2023

 

Heart of Wales Line

  · 

Byddwn yn eu cofio

We will remember them

#RemembranceDay #LestWeForget

The Hunters Moon over Stonehenge

The 2023 October Full Hunters Moon setting at Stonehenge this morning

[ credit -Stonehenge Dronescapes on FB ]

Stuck inside by bad weather? Here's how to get away.

 Stuck indoors by the rain ?

Slip away into a book and enjoy some Eastern Promise and luxury living in Constantinople, with handsome Kerim Pasha, English Rose and her Antiquarian-mad Aunt Emily.

On FREE OFFER at present.

                                                        April And May

Amazing and colourful adventures in 1804 Constantinople and London.

Swoboda - Shopping in the Harem

[picture courtesy of farukunal.com]

 picture courtesy of sultan-kayiklari-ile-bogaz-turu.com 

Audiobook of 'The Rake's Challenge'

                                                            

                    Audiobook version, [ produced by Audiolibrix ]

                                                     The Rake's Challenge

 

What does it take to challenge a Rake, one who is notorious for his gambling and duelling, as well as having his pick of exquisite women? Giles Maltravers, Earl of Longwood, has his rakish lifestyle turned upside down the day he saves Anna Lawrence from a pair of drunken young Bloods. The irony is Giles is now honour bound to protect this headstrong girl.

Inspired by a fervent devotion to the works of Lord Byron, Anna is determined to live a life of adventure, but she plunges from one disaster into another. Giles has no time left to enjoy his former pleasures, especially when the Prince Regent decides that Anna is just in his style...

But Anna has a secret that gives Giles his greatest challenge of all.

Author:

Beth Elliott

Narrators:

Alice White, Synthesized Voice - Female

Content:

Unabridged (chapter list)

Length:

6:46 h

Format:

MP3 download (377 MB)

Language:

English

Publisher:

Lume Books (2021)

Genre:

Romance