24 Dec
Merry Christmas to all my lovely readers! Hope you all have an excellent holidays and get lots of presents but not too drunk.
Isn’t the picture lovely? I found this postcard in a shop on Gloucester Road in Bristol months and months ago and have had it on my desk ever since waiting for Christmas Eve!
"You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is." - Anne of Green Gables.
I am Melanie Clegg, an authoress of novels of POSH DOOM, history geek, Versailles obsessive, Paris lover, historical fiction writer, Victorian Prostitute re-enactor, Art History graduate, committed vegetarian, GIN taster, curry lover and Pimms addict living in deepest darkest Bristol with my family.
I'm a member of the Whitechapel Society and London Historians and also a reviewer for the Historical Novel Society.
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To know her was to love her...
Born in the very heart of the dangers of the English Civil War, smuggled out of the clutches of Parliament as a toddler and then raised in near penury in exile in France, the charming and beautiful Princess Henrietta-Anne Stuart, youngest daughter of Charles I and Henrietta Maria is the original Cinderella, waiting breathlessly and with some trepidation for the moment when her family’s fortunes will be restored and she can reclaim her proper place in the world.
The first book in my two part series about Minette, the youngest and favourite sister of Charles II is now available from Amazon US and Amazon UK.
My second novel, Blood Sisters was inspired by the stories of several intrepid, courageous and amazing women who lived through the upheaval of the French Revolution, in particular the Princesse Joseph de Monaco, Emilie de Saint-Amaranthe, Princesse Rosalie Lubomirska and Lucile Desmoulins, all of whom followed very different destinies.’
‘The French Revolution was a period of political upheaval, and of terrifying and appalling violence. I wanted to interweave that political background with my story so my heroines weren’t just passively sitting at home waiting for men to do everything, but getting out there and making history themselves.’
Blood Sisters is an historical epic with a romantic, adventurous edge, and out now for Kindle from Amazon US and Amazon UK.
Blood Sisters will be available as a special edition paperback from the 15th of April but you can preorder copies now! Hurray! The first forty will be signed so don't delay if you want one that I've scribbled on!
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Merry Christmas to you and yours.
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Have loved reading your blog over the past year & always look forward to your posts. Hope you have a spooky, dark, Dickensian Christmas with many fine goblets of gin!x
Merry Christmas to you and your family. Best wishes for the New Year!
Blessings of the season to you and yours!! Merry Christmas!!
Blessings of the season to all!! Merry Christmas!!
That is a lovely postcard! You and your family have a wonderful Christmas too!
Merry Christmas to you too. Hope you have a great one.
Adore the card!
Blessings to you and your family.
Best wishes for a safe, happy, healthy, and prosperous 2013!
Hope you had a Merry Christmas, Melanie! I have resubscribed via email. :)
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas!
What a beautiful card!