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This is a personal story in memory of Mary, my great-grandmother, whose fate I only came to discover after writing about a Victorian a...

Today is the publication date of Elijah's Mermaid , the VV's second Victorian novel - a story of love and betrayal where nothing i...

Charles Kingsley has a lot to answer for. When the VV was seven years old, she joined the town library and The Water Babies was the very fi...

The Dordogne region of France is to me, pure magic. Considered one of the most unspoiled  regions of Europe in the southwest of the country....

What a summer that was.........blazing hot, drought induced and madly busy! I was unprepared for the spate of business for both interiors an...