by Marie-Louise Jensen I love having a real place to set my books. It helps me see the story playing out if I know the place. I used real ...

by Marie-Louise Jensen When I'm researching and reading old books, I love to find and note all the ways language has altered over the ...

by Marie-Louise Jensen With the rise of travel and tourism in the 18th Century, coaching inns or posting inns began to spring up all over ...

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 When I think of wagons, I tend to visualise the covered wagons settlers used travelling westward in America. But of...

by Marie-Louise Jensen Researching 18th century roads in England for my most recent book was a fascinating learning experience. I'd...

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