Extras: Eloisa's Desk
Since I’m a professor in my other life, I’m always writing pieces for magazines, blogs, and newspapers. You’ll find essays here that deal with everything from the craft of writing, historical research, raising children—and living in Paris!
With the Help of Jane Austen…
Enjoy this tidbit from when Eloisa was writing The Taming of the Duke. The book I’m writing at the moment (as yet, untitled) circles around the production of a play — and yes, for those enthusiasts out there, Miss Gillian Pythian-Adams is the producer. The obvious progenitor of this kind of novel is Jane Austen’s […]
Read More →My First Year as a Published Author
Remember how much you longed to be a teenager? When I was unpublished, the published state looked just as glorious as the magic year thirteen does to a eleven-year-old girl. I had no problem visualizing myself signing my name with a flourish and meeting my editor at fancy New York lunches. But First Years are […]
Read More →Georgian England Loved to Laugh
Enjoy this essay Eloisa published as a countdown to the release of Desperate Duchesses, which was a shift in setting for Eloisa from Regency England. Georgian England loved to laugh. The Georgians were a long way from the strait-laced Victorians: they laughed about sex, scandal, fashion, alcohol and any other pleasure you can think of, […]
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