by Marie-Louise Jensen I'm a month late with my Shakespeare post. Forgive me! It wasn't my turn to post in April, but initial...

by Marie-Louise Jensen I had a new book out in late July. Which was weird because I didn't see it until mid August because I was in E...

by Marie-Louise Jensen One of the first questions I tend to ask myself, once a story has formed in my mind, is where is it set? I need to ...

by Marie-Louise Jensen I'm writing this post on St Valentine's Day having just run the gauntlet of the pink-and-heart-strewn aisle...

by Marie-Louise Jensen I posted last month about the slowness of wagons on narrow rutted roads in the 18th Century. There was another form...

by Marie-Louise Jensen I'm currently writing a new Viking e-book for Fiction Express and it has set me thinking again about just how u...

by Marie-Louise Jensen I'm not adverse to a few moisturisers and beauty treatments from time to time, but I can be quite lazy about a...

by Marie-Louise Jensen In early Georgian times it became fashionable, especially for well-to-do young men to speak 'cant' or slang...

I recently visited the Hollywood Costume Exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum*.  It was very popular. I went with my daughter and...