by Diane Morris | Nov 14, 2021 | surgeons & surgery, Writing
My trilogy is finished. The series–titled Surgeon’s Duty–is set in Regency England (specifically 1816 and 1817) and follows a hospital surgeon and several body-snatchers (a.k.a. resurrection men). The body-snatchers dig up newly buried bodies and...
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...
by Diane Morris | Feb 11, 2016 | Anne de Bourgh, Pride and Prejudice, Writing
Following on my previous blog post about Anne de Bourgh, I wish to address a quirky topic. Who controls the story? The writer or the characters? My first introduction to the idea that characters were in control of their stories occurred some twenty-five or thirty...
by Diane Morris | Jan 28, 2016 | Anne de Bourgh, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Writing
My new novel about Anne de Bourgh is nearly live—it’s being processed by Amazon for both its website and Kindle store as I write. Today seems like a good day to write about this fairly minor character in Jane Austen’s popular novel Pride and Prejudice. One...
