Elizabeth Donne Books

At this time of year, it seems to be expected to post about your New Year’s resolutions. I’ll confess, I’ve never been one for this.

You have to do your own flapping and keep your focus forward, but everything feels so much better when you struggle together.

One can picture many a merry argument continuing after the pages are done.

Did Jane Austen emerge from the confines of winter with an enthusiasm for soil and greenery?

Marianne is a plain-speaking young lady — perhaps too plain-speaking by acceptable standards.

Three-quarters of Austen’s life was experienced through the lens of war. Why, then, do we see so little of it in her books?

Alissa Baxter has woven fascinating details about the fossils at Lyme Regis into a most enjoyable narrative.

It would be unusual for a Regency author to write a scene in which the heroine eagerly rips open an envelope.

The descriptions of Cornwall in general, and the characters’ more immediate environments in particular, are detailed and exquisite.

The signs of life are a renewal, not only for the birds and the plants, but also for me. A sort of awakening has occurred in my writing, too

The title caught my attention at once. It is not often the heroine saves the gentleman.

For my readers who are not also writers, this blog heading will likely make little sense. Allow me to explain. The expression “comp book”...

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, I wanted to do a blog about love

Oh, if only writing a good book guaranteed its publication...

Every January, I am reminded of the watershed moment when this lifelong South African began to feel like an Iowan.

“I wish as well as everybody else to be perfectly happy; but like everybody else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.”

My writing space is set up so that I have an inspiring view across the curve of our cul-de-sac. Because Iowans take a lot of pride in...

It’s time to take another look at my collection of “Ten Things.” This month I am focusing on ten words/phrases that come up when I am...

I have begun my preparation work for a new book. This is a really fun part of the writing process, as I research and set out the world...

distressing aspects of the book that lie beneath the veneer of Austen’s wit