Welcome back to my master class blog series , where I dissect passages by famous nineteenth-century authors to inspire writers today.  This ...

I can hardly believe it, but I’ve now been running this blog on nineteenth-century literature and culture for over a decade! The blog has ch...

Happy Halloween, everyone! Today’s festivities have put me in a macabre and morbid mood so for today’s blog post, I’m running through some o...

Ever since the sale of my debut novel, Bronte’s Mistress , I’ve been answering questions about the writing and publication process on my bl...

Back in October, to celebrate the release of Ribbons of Scarlet (2019)—a multi-authored historical novel about the women of the French Revo...

In the last three posts in my Neo-Victorian Voices series , on novels set in the nineteenth century, but written in the twenty-f...

I first read Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black (1983) as a child when I came across the book in my local library. I’d rece...