Your Sunday afternoon read — a new post on my Substack. Widows’ garb gave me an important clue. I love it when my interest in costume collides with other research.
rosemarygriggs.substack.com/p/a-womans-l...
#WomenInHistory #elizabethan #writersresearch
Norman tub font at St Andrew’s , Mells, Somerset.
The Horner family bought nearby Mells Manor in 1543, after dissolution of Glastonbury Abbey in 1539.
Thomas Horner from my latest novel, born 1547, may have been baptised in this font.
#FontsonFriday #writersresearch #historicalfictionauthor
I did the same thing. I read our World Book Encyclopedias and a massive dictionary for hours at a time.
#WritersResearch
I had a successful morning researching yesterday.
#writersresearch #archives
#histficmay
Day 23 Biggest surprise from my research?
Sir Walter Raleigh’s recipe for a cordial to cure coughs — made from tobacco! Elinor Fettiplace includes it in the manuscript collection of recipes she compiled in 1604.
#elizabethan #writersresearch
#historicalfiction
One thing I've realised being in central London is how much the main character from my book would hate it. He's a violinist so would have reason to be in the theatre district. Must remember the terrifying tuktuks. #AmWriting #WritersResearch
Recommend me your favourite lesbian space pirates book (preferably written by someone else so we’re uplifting each other) so I can name drop it in the novel I’m writing and hopefully someone will think, “ooh, that sounds like a cool concept” and find it.
#WritersLift & also #WritersResearch
Pls RT
St Mary’s Cloford, Somerset beyond the gate on Sunday afternoon. A 15th century church rebuilt 1856 — Cloford gets a mention in my next novel.
#thursgate #writersresearch
Lovely to meet so many old friends and new at Newton Abbot Museum yesterday evening.
Did you know that Sir Walter Raleigh’s half-brother lived in the town? Read more here
rosemarygriggs.co.uk/blog/19/
#newtonabbot #devonhistory
#historicalfictionauthor
#writersresearch
Slower day today, spent a lot of time diving down the research rabbit hole. But...
I wrote 1100 words - prewriting/plot points
And beta read so I'm now at 489/760 pages
#amreading #amwriting #writerslife #writersresearch
- “For,” the old man told me, “we have all got a sperrit something like a spark inside we, and a sperrit can go large or small or down down quite small, even into a snuff-box.”
#lore #oldtimesense #writersresearch
I spent a useful morning studying old documents. It’s reassuring to find evidence that the plot for my work in progress is plausible.
#amresearching #amwriting #writersresearch
#historicalfictionauthor
We visited the UK for 3 weeks last September, would y'all like to see some of the pictures? #writeronvaca #UKtrip #writersresearch
Diving into research into public (private) schools in the London area in 1907. #writersresearch
St Mary’s Church, Dunsford, Devon
Arthur Champernowne (1580-1650) of Dartington married Bridget Fulford here on 17 June 1598
Now with the correct photo attached!
#steeplesaturday #devonfamilies #writersresearch
My visit to St Peter’s Church, North Tawton, Devon was definitely worthwhile.
This medieval bench end bears the Champernowne arms
#writersresearch #devonhistory #champernowne #woodcarving
Day 17 #HistFicMay
This is my favourite research book. Such wonderful window on who was in favour and who was not and what items were considered of suitable value for a New Year’s gift
#elizabethan #HistoricalFiction #writersresearch
#histficmay
Day16 One of the most challenging aspects of the setting for my writing is looking beyond what’s there today to see places like Dartington Hall @DartingtonTrust through the eyes of its 16th century residents
#writersresearch #historicalfiction
In the world of ‘X’ I’m doing #HistFicMay
Day 13 prompt is - if I could time travel where and when would I visit?
I travel back to 16th century Devon all the time! It’s a brilliant way of understanding their world
#historicalfiction #timetravel #historyinterpreter #writersresearch
#SteepleSaturday
The tower of Eglise Notre Dame of Saint-Lô, rebuilt after serious damage in 1944. Huguenot forces made their headquarters in Saint-Lô in 1574
I visited when researching for my new book, The Dartington Bride
#normandy #writersresearch #historicalfiction
A rare sighting in 21st century dress a few years ago while researching in France for The Dartington Bride
Anyone recognise these places?
#writersresearch #normandy #newbook #HistoricalFiction
Monument to Sir Arthur Champernowne of Dartington.
Is the woman seated far left his wife Mary Norreys or his daughter Elizabeth, later wife of Edward Seymour of Berry Pomeroy?
(Meet Sir Arthur in my new novel!)📚📓
#monumentsmonday #writersresearch #historicalfiction
The Seymour monument in St Mary’s Church, Berry Pomeroy, Devon. Edward Seymour’s wife, Elizabeth Champernowne, is a supporting character in my new novel .
Read about my search for her
rosemarygriggs.co.uk/blog/28/
#MonumentsMonday #writersresearch 📚✍️🧐
My latest book acquisition- I may disappear with some tricky documents for a while
#writersresearch
#devonhistory #historicalfiction
What stories a 16th century shoe 👞 might tell
#tudor #historicalfiction
#writersresearch
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Granite font from 15th or early 16th century, Church of All Hallows Broadwoodkelly, Devon.
Thimas Gilbert (died 1529, father of Katherine Champernowne’s 1st husband) held the manor of Broadwoodkelly
#FontsonFriday #writersresearch 📚 #devon #tudor
