by Diane Morris | May 3, 2023 | Body-snatchers, Dissection, Medicine, Publishing, surgeons & surgery, Surgery
Book 2 of my trilogy is available online. It’s titled Naught but Butchers and can be bought on Amazon and Smashwords. Naught but Butchers continues the story of the surgeon James Hammond, who leaves London — the only home he has ever known — for the...
by Diane Morris | Sep 1, 2022 | Anne de Bourgh, Publishing
Quotations Used in My Novelette Cousin Anne In this blog I list the quotations used in my novelette Cousin Anne. I posted them here instead of adding them to the back matter as I usually do. Choosing this route avoided any worries about altering the book cover’s...
by Diane Morris | Aug 8, 2022 | Publishing
My Regency website has a new look, starting with Issac Robert Cruikshank’s painting titled “Characters on the Steyne, Brighton.” Published in 1825, Cruikshank’s painting is just so Regency! The Steyne (or “Steine”) was a popular...
by Diane Morris | Apr 30, 2022 | Anne de Bourgh, Disease, Pride and Prejudice, Publishing
Nearly everybody has heard of Elizabeth Bennet, the spunky young lady in Jane Austen’s beloved novel Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth is so popular that she has her own Wikipedia page, where curious persons can read a detailed analysis of her character. Known for...
by Diane Morris | Apr 11, 2022 | Body-snatchers, Medicine, Publishing, Resurrection Men, surgeons & surgery
Book 1 of my Surgeon’s Duty trilogy — titled Ravaging the Dead — is live and can be found as both a paperback and a Kindle eBook on Amazon. It can also be found as an eBook on Smashwords. The trilogy tells a tale of body-snatchers and surgeons in...
by Diane Morris | Jan 24, 2019 | Publishing, Writing
When I first started blogging some five years ago I happened to buy Vic Gatrell’s book City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London at a local discount bookstore.1 I have never been the same since. Gatrell introduced me to the...
