Jane Dunn
@JaneDunnAuthor
S.Times bestselling biographer discovering the joys of writing historical fiction, the romance, politics & excess of the Regency @FelicityBryan @boldwoodbooks
All my writing life I spent 3-4 yrs researching then writing each biography. In my late-flowering into #Regency delights I can hardly believe I've published 5 novels since Jan'23 (half a million words!) My latest 'The Accidental Debutante' (Jun 14) 💖 @BoldwoodBooks #Romance
I've long admired Jane Dunn's magnificent biography of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, A Very Close Conspiracy. So it rather blows my mind that she's now reading MY biography of two other wonderful women - Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell... 😍
Just arrived, new paperback of acclaimed The Invention of Charlotte Brontë - "closely researched...unbearably poignant...the most gripping Brontë page-turner since Mrs Gaskell". Can't wait. Thank you @GrahamWatson73 @HistoryPress #Bronte #booktwt wood engraving by Eichenberg
Two very different women with claims on Lord Byron’s heart strut through @JedPumblechook Theatricals, while the men friends flutter
This week from Pumblechook Theatricals: Teresa Guccioli, Byron's last inamorata, visits Blighty to set his venerable English coterie to rights⤵️ jpumblechook.com/teresa-in-engl…
I highly recommend this fascinating analysis by @JedPumblechook of the women in Byron's life, and how neglected in subsequent accounts are the voices of the two who truly knew and loved him
Teresa Guiccioli: the Mirror of Byron's Heart The curiously neglected voice of Lord Byron's last love⤵️ jedpumblechook.substack.com/p/teresa-guicc…
"Byron’s afterlife presence is particularly reflected in the work of nineteenth-century women writers: Emily and Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot, who remodelled the Byronic hero to satisfy the expectations of the Victorian reading public." Andrzej Diniejko
Graham, I'm so gripped by your wonderful book I'm grabbing every spare half hour. My view of C Brontë, the epic tragedies & triumphs of her life, her family, work & friendships, is so enriched. The stalking, the celebrity, the myth-making, all utterly fascinating @GrahamWatson73
Fascinating bit of #Regency #History!
The Woolwich Rotunda started life as a tented ballroom for the Prince Regent in Westminster. 🎪 Designed by John Nash, it dates back to 1814. In 1818, the structure was moved to Woolwich, where it reopened as a military museum.
I’m delighted you enjoyed this @BetheBooks So glad you like the sense of time and place, and the language - and the horses! Thank you so much for posting
Enjoy learning new vocab, either British sayings or more archaic language/usages. Nice return to the friend group from an Unsuitable Heiress. Love the horses aspect, will Eliza get her circus horse back? @JaneDunnAuthor #bookaday #regencyromance
What an Age that had such genius in it! @JedPumblechook in Pumplechook Theatricals shows how a tussle between Lord Byron and the King of Pantaloonery ended with both geniuses as Top Dog
This week, a special Appearance at Pumblechook Theatricals from the Esteemed Joseph Grimaldi, Bart., whereabouts the Master proceeds to offend his greatest fan, Lord Byron⤵️ jpumblechook.com/grimaldi
Get ready to return to #TheDarkAge Coming 13th July 2025 in ebook, paperback, hardback and audio. Available Now! During Britannia’s tribal age only the strongest prevail… Britain AD541
Secrets of the Rose @NicolaCornick is such a wonderful book, beautifully written with a true sense of history, drama & deep emotion, set in atmospheric Bamburgh on the Northumberland coast, I thought I'd give it a floral tribute with what remains in my drought-stricken garden
No 2 in Audio Regency Romance Charts. Hurrah! I hope it's not too childish but I so love being the Resistance to the Bridgerton tsunami & with my 4 last novels in the top 40, thanks to you wonderful listeners. Thanks too - Richard Attlee narrator & @UlverscroftLtd @BoldwoodBooks
Oh what joy! The great Lord Byron aficionado & conjurer of inspired Pumblechook Theatrics @JedPumblechook is reading my jeu d'esprit! My hero & heroine know off by heart Byron's great poem, 'The Corsair', & it gives them a private language & understanding. Nothing is sexier❤️❤️
One more badly interrupted night's sleep (it's 2 o'clock, turn that light off!!) and I'll be finished reading this wonderful adventure by @JaneDunnAuthor - and looking forward to the next🐎
#VirginiaWoolf, a fan of the #Brontë sisters, made her publishing debut with the essay “Haworth, November 1904” in The Guardian. The piece hints at the style that would later define her novels: intimate family life, meaningful objects, and quietly brilliant women.
The black-eyed Roman with The eagle’s beak between those eyes which ne’er Beheld a conqueror, or looked along The land he made not Rome’s, while Rome became His, and all theirs who heired his very name. 'The Deformed Transformed' - Byron Julius Caesar's 2125th birthday today🌿
How I love a story of sisters & @MKenneyPR has conjured up four sparky modern-minded Fairfax girls. The dialogue's quick-fire, plot complex & satisfying, the men heroic & rich. Good-hearted & good fun. Well done! A great escape on a hot day, with a cuppa in the shade. #Regency
The joy of @JedPumblechook wickedly funny & truthful theatrics. With Byronmania at its height (Childe Harold just published) and his 'loin-inflaming poesy' exciting a phalanx of fangirls, one is more deluded & dangerous than most. You couldn't make it up! Perfection❤️
This week from Pumblechook Theatrics: An unhinged recipient of Lord Byron's largesse attempts repayment, of a kind⤵️ jpumblechook.com/hardy
Congratulations @ClareMarchant1 This has been such a well-deserved success 🎉💐🥂🍾
ICYMI my book #TheHouseoftheWitch is currently on a kindle monthly deal so if you’ve been waiting to read it, now is the time to grab yourself a bargain! shorturl.at/i2SvW
Just back from hot-hot car trip to find this wonderful Amazon review for The Accidental Debutante! "will remain in my heart for ever" @DawnAJWitney is a brilliant writer & reviewer & It's hugely touching to find a reader who loves & understands what one is trying to do 🥂Thankyou
Just arrived in the post, MP3 & CDs of AUDIO version of my latest. Thank you @UlverscroftLtd "Archers" heartthrob Kenton (Richard Attlee) is wonderfully warm, witty & expressive as a narrator. He told me he found the book "intensely romantic" 😊 #Regency #romance @BoldwoodBooks
Wonderful Dawn, a great reader, writer and supporter of other writers. I’m so glad you enjoyed my latest - The Accidental Debutante. Thank you so much for reading and posting this. ❤️#Regency #Romance #booktwt
@JaneDunnAuthor I finished #TheAccidentalDebutante last night. Too tired to write a review today, after my early start, but I loved the horses: the descriptions, the race, Percy. I need Percy in my life now and Raven Purfoy! A delight from the first word to the last!