Depending on what I need for the story, I'll use maps and photos of the setting, I might research food (for stories set in Egypt and Spain) - all kinds of things. For the Mackenzies series, which is about a Scottish family set in Victorian times, I read books on the general background of the Victorian age all the time, plus books specific to Scotland and England, plus whatever specific thing I'm researching for the book.Īnne: For me, getting my period right is a combination of having grown up in the Regency (i.e., reading Georgette Heyer since I was 11), studying history at university, reading old journals and letters, reading both widely and specifically, and using the Web. Jennifer: Research is an ongoing process. Welcome to HEA, ladies!Īnne: It's almost the first question people always ask historical writers so, Jennifer, how do you do your research? That's right, Anne Gracie, whose The Autumn Bride came out last week, and Jennifer Ashley, whose The Seduction of Elliot McBride came out at the end of 2012, are in the house to chat about writing historicals. You know it's a good day for HEA when we have not one but two (TWO!) amazing historical romance authors interviewing each other about their books.
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She was horrified by Barrie’s permissive, anything-goes attitude and felt he was undermining her authority. The encounters provided Barrie with inspiration for Peter Pan, who first appeared in his 1902 novel The Little White Bird followed by a play, Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up in 1904 and then the Arthur Rackham-illustrated Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens in 1906.Īnother key character in the story is the father Arthur Llewellyn Davies who, understandably, thought Barrie’s attention to the children odd and his almost daily visits too much.Īt the heart of the remarkable story was Hodgson, who brought the children up. He was charmed by them and began regularly accompanying them through the park, telling them fantastic stories of fairies and pirates.īarrie developed a close friendship with the boys’ mother, Sylvia, and became a regular fixture at their home. It was 1897 when Barrie bumped into Hodgson as she walked in the park with the Llewellyn Davies children – George, Jack and baby Peter. Barrie met these boys in Kensington Gardens, he befriended them, he was the child who never grew up and he was writing about himself but using the boys as models.” Mary Hodgson had such an important role in the thought process behind Peter Pan. The first edition book will feature at the Olympia book fair in London. This may be the most remembered episode from the entire Slappy series. So here is my official ranking of “Night of the Living Dummy” episodes! 3. Basically, he’s the Chucky of kid’s horror TV. You can buy collectibles and your own life size Slappy Dummy. Slappy, and various other dummies, appears in 9 books, 3 episodes, and the upcoming feature film. Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy has been a staple of the Goosebumps franchise since it began. However, one character will always have a place in my spooky heart. Some episodes still held a creepy vibe that still hit me in the 8 year old gut and others…well they didn’t hold up as well. I’ve had a lot of time to spend at home lately, which means quality Netflix time! Last night, during a pumpkin pie induced haze, I decided to take a trip back to my childhood and watch a few episodes of Goosebumps. Leaf once commented, "Early on in my writing career I realized that if one found some truths worth telling they should be told to the young in terms that were understandable to them." He taught secondary school English at the Belmont Hill School in Boston in 1929 and then worked as an editor with the publisher Frederick A. He graduated from Harvard University with a master's degree in English literature in 1931. Leaf studied at the University of Maryland where he had played lacrosse and served as class treasurer, graduating in 1927 He honeymooned with his wife Margaret Pope in Europe in 1928. where his father had established his career as a machinist at the Government Printing Office. By 1910 his family lived in Washington, D.C. Leaf had an older sister, Elizabeth W Leaf. Munroe Wilbur Leaf was born on December 4, 1905, the son of Charles W Leaf (1871-1965) and Emma India Leaf in Hamilton, Maryland. Labeled as subversive, it stirred an international controversy. He is best known for The Story of Ferdinand (1936), a children's classic which he wrote on a yellow legal-length pad in less than an hour. Munro Leaf) (Decem– December 21, 1976) was an American writer of children's literature who wrote and illustrated nearly 40 books during his 40-year career. |