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- Stories my Father Told Me About the War
- Dogs in WW1
- Chateau Impney and the Salt King
- A Blog on Blighty
- The Redoubtable Edwardian raises a glass . . . or two
- The Redoubtable Edwardian Sense of ‘Hewmah’
- Gertrude Jekyll and Old Roses
- An Edwardian Christmas at Iyntwood
- British Tea and the Proper Wielding of Teapots.
- Winston Churchill in Death Sits Down to Dinner
- Lady Montfort, Mrs. Jackson and the Agatha nomination
- Sir Thomas Beecham and the Importance of Starting, and Finishing, Together
- Mrs. Jackson and the Lancashire Witches
- Maud, Lady Cunard and the Wounding Repartee
- Mrs. Jackson and the Golden Rules
- Why does the Britain of the early 1900s intrigue and delight so many of us?
- Daisy Brook and the Imprudent Letter
- Eric Horne and What the Butler Saw
- Dame Nellie Melba and the Silver Voice with a Brass Tongue
- The Lodger by Louisa Treger – A story of Dorothy Richardson
- The Goddess of the Hunt and Riding Aside
- Drinking Tea and the Rules of Engagement
- The Redoubtable Edwardian and the Institution of Marriage
- Iyntwood House and Centuries of Prudent Politics
- Iyntwood and the Chocolate Challenge
- Elinor Glyn and the Tiger Skin
- The Redoubtable Edwardian Housemaid and a Life of Service
- Redoubtable Historical Novelists of the 21st century!
- Clementine Talbot, Countess of Montfort
- Gladys, Marchioness of Ripon and a Night at the Opera
- Death of a Dishonorable Gentlemen
- A Party for Winston
- Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon and the Dress of Emotion
- Iyntwood’s Favorite Reads for 1912
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- Vaslav Nijinksy and the Ballet Russe
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Author Archives: Tessa Arlen
Stories my Father Told Me About the War
My father was given a thrashing because he and his cousin sat up on the roof of their house in Greenwich with their Spam sandwiches to watch a dogfight between Messerschmidts and Spitfires over the London docks. Continue reading
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Dogs in WW1
The cover of DEATH OF AN UNSUNG HERO features a British officer with his dog a not uncommon sight in France and Belgium during WW1. As complexes of trenches spread throughout the Western Front the need for well-trained military dogs … Continue reading
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Chateau Impney and the Salt King
I am delighted to share Chateau Impney as the house on the cover for Lady Montfort and Edith Jackson’s fourth adventure: Death of an Unsung Hero, and the story of how I came to choose it as a stand in for the fictitious … Continue reading
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A Blog on Blighty
I have just finished the copyedit for DEATH OF AN UNSUNG HERO – Lady Montfort and Edith Jackson’s fourth adventure together which takes place at home in Blighty in 1916 as the Battle of the Somme raged on for most of … Continue reading
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The Redoubtable Edwardian raises a glass . . . or two
It is a well-known fact that the Edwardian lady did not drink whiskey –or, for some strange reason, other dark colored alcoholic drinks like port, brandy, beer or stout. It was considered unfeminine and ‘low’. Working class women drank gin … Continue reading
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The Redoubtable Edwardian Sense of ‘Hewmah’
The Edwardians were not known for their rapier-like wit but they owned a robust sense of humor that left no one in any doubt as to their meaning whether they were enjoying your company or not. The laconic observations of … Continue reading
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Gertrude Jekyll and Old Roses
I have taken the tremendous liberty in A DEATH BY ANY OTHER NAME, which releases on March 14, 2017, of including among my quirky characters the redoubtable garden designer Gertrude Jekyll. Miss Jekyll designed some of the most beautiful gardens … Continue reading
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An Edwardian Christmas at Iyntwood
In 1901 when Clementine, Lady Montfort was a young mother with three young children in the nursery it snowed that Christmas Eve as the Talbot family and their servants walked down St. Bartholomew’s church in the village for the evening … Continue reading
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British Tea and the Proper Wielding of Teapots.
I want to try to clarify some of the rules bout the ritual of tea time as it is probably one of the most misrepresented of British traditions.
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Winston Churchill in Death Sits Down to Dinner
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston S. Churchill Winston Spencer Churchill was the son of Lord Randolph Churchill, the third son of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough and Lady Randolph Churchill (née … Continue reading
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