I love love love it-- as i knew I would. Particularly nice to see Edrington. (I am beginning to roll Edrington around in my mind and sort of taste him, (as we do,) preparatory to writing him. I like that you allowed us to see his sense and compassion.
Yes, it's Bush. I had the sections headed with the character names for most of the time I was working on it; I didn't think that his section wouldn't name him specifically without that.
I'm glad you liked it! I did have fun writing Edrington; I fell in love with him a little in the movie at that "Look after him," and I think I'm going to enjoy having him around. I have to say Kitty Cobham was the most fun of all, though.
I'm so glad you do! And yes, Edrington's very pragmatic. Not to mention, able to laugh at himself. He's very sure of himself, as you might expect from an Earl!
Hee! I love all these stories, but I especially love the conversations downstairs and between Archie's young cousins. And yay for Eddington being able to mock himself.
The more I hear Edrington in my head, the better I like him. I'm very much looking forward to watching Cambridge Spies, which has jumped to the top of our Netflix queue. (O HAI. Sam West. Sometimes naked. And kissing another dude. This is relevant to our interests.)
I realized yesterday where Mrs. Wilson was coming from - Siegfried and Tristan's Mrs. Hall, from All Creatures Great and Small!
I'm glad you like them! Especially as I know just what a discerning fan of Regencies you are! I must have learned half of my tricks out of your books when we kept them over the dining-room windows. ;-)
I know a number of people who've made the jump from fanfiction to published m/m romance. One of them (who's known me since my Potterfic days) is encouraging me to do the same. I'm still considering whether to do historical or contempiracy, and how to make it not ENTIRELY a clone of Horatio/Archie (or Matt Devlin), but... my next planned story is NOT Horatio/Archie, and it's for a call for submissions to a Circlet anthology. So I'm dipping my toes in.
BTW, there's a sort of Easter egg in the Bush section. I was inspired by a song and threw in a couple of small shout-outs to it. Can you spot it? (email, don't spoil! But if anyone gets it, it might be you.)
Yes the slew of mothers - with - daughters - in the end pretty much like any boat action - resourcefulness and insight as well as courage and determination :)
I thought this was highly entertaining! I particularly adored Edrington, brilliantly done. You should write more Edrington, he doesn't show up too often these days and he's a real joy here!
I also really liked the London 1802 section. You write these domestic scenes so well, they're wonderfully observed in every detail and the voices are just perfect.
The reference to the girls in school falling in love with each other made me smile too. It reminded me of Picnic At Hanging Rock.
Oh, believe me, I have plans for Edrington! It may be slightly delayed because I want to get at least the first draft of an original story I want to submit for an anthology down first (cross your fingers for me!) but I intend to write more with him! And Cambridge Spies is next in the Netflix queue. My biggest worry with Edrington is walking the line between agreeing with Marna's fantastic portrayal in All The King's Men and feeling like I'm ripping it OFF.
I'm also glad you like the downstairs bunch! I always worry I'm just doing stock characters with them, but I can hear them so well.
*grin* ah, the girls at school. One of my early readers was all "really?" and I just told her "read Lillian Faderman, grasshopper!"
Delighted to hear you have plans for Edrington. He is sadly neglected these days and he is such a wonderful character :) I certainly won't be drawing any comparisons with All The Kings Men as I've never read it! I've been told the characterisation is very good but I couldn't really get into it.
I don't think the "downstairs bunch" come across as stock characters at all! They all seem like very real individuals with wonderfully characteristic voices. That's why they're such a pleasure to read :) I honestly wouldn't know where to start writing characters like this!
You're missing some absolutely SCORCHING sex with ATKM. Marna's Archie and my Archie are different enough, though, that it could never happen in my 'verse. It makes me a little sad, as Edrington is very, very good for him, but I've done what I can through Horatio.
Inspiration for the downstairs characters: lots and lots of Anne Perry mysteries. Yes, they're late Victorian in setting, but that just means adjusting for different technology and the fact that the duties might not have been so rigidly defined in a Georgian household, certainly not one with a skeleton staff. Also: Mrs. Hall in All Creatures Great and Small, which I adored as a child. Also the managing-household-staff notes in Mrs. Beeton and in modern Miss Manners - and Miss Manners is a humorist disguised as an etiquette writer. Addressing why so few people keep full staffs any more: "Are they content to be done in by some stranger off the street, rather than the family butler?" and on the duties of staff "The gamekeeper... never mind what the gamekeeper does." Also: the
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I'm glad you liked it! I did have fun writing Edrington; I fell in love with him a little in the movie at that "Look after him," and I think I'm going to enjoy having him around. I have to say Kitty Cobham was the most fun of all, though.
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(particularly Edrington, I think. He's so....pragmatic.)
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I realized yesterday where Mrs. Wilson was coming from - Siegfried and Tristan's Mrs. Hall, from All Creatures Great and Small!
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BTW, there's a sort of Easter egg in the Bush section. I was inspired by a song and threw in a couple of small shout-outs to it. Can you spot it? (email, don't spoil! But if anyone gets it, it might be you.)
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some very enjoyable moments in here
thank you
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I thought this was highly entertaining! I particularly adored Edrington, brilliantly done. You should write more Edrington, he doesn't show up too often these days and he's a real joy here!
I also really liked the London 1802 section. You write these domestic scenes so well, they're wonderfully observed in every detail and the voices are just perfect.
The reference to the girls in school falling in love with each other made me smile too. It reminded me of Picnic At Hanging Rock.
Excellent! Very well done indeed :)
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I'm also glad you like the downstairs bunch! I always worry I'm just doing stock characters with them, but I can hear them so well.
*grin* ah, the girls at school. One of my early readers was all "really?" and I just told her "read Lillian Faderman, grasshopper!"
I'm glad you liked it!
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I don't think the "downstairs bunch" come across as stock characters at all! They all seem like very real individuals with wonderfully characteristic voices. That's why they're such a pleasure to read :) I honestly wouldn't know where to start writing characters like this!
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Inspiration for the downstairs characters: lots and lots of Anne Perry mysteries. Yes, they're late Victorian in setting, but that just means adjusting for different technology and the fact that the duties might not have been so rigidly defined in a Georgian household, certainly not one with a skeleton staff. Also: Mrs. Hall in All Creatures Great and Small, which I adored as a child. Also the managing-household-staff notes in Mrs. Beeton and in modern Miss Manners - and Miss Manners is a humorist disguised as an etiquette writer. Addressing why so few people keep full staffs any more: "Are they content to be done in by some stranger off the street, rather than the family butler?" and on the duties of staff "The gamekeeper... never mind what the gamekeeper does." Also: the ( ... )
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