![]() This was followed by 'Read my Heart: Dorothy Osborne and Sir William Temple, a Love Story in the Age of Revolution' and then 'Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters'. 'Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens' spent seven weeks in the top ten of the Sunday Times bestseller list. My biographies are: 'Moon in Eclipse: A Life of Mary Shelley' 'A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf' 'Antonia White: A Life'. It delights me that the characters and stories in 'The Marriage Season', and the subsequent novels, exist in their historic context with language and mores they would have understood at the time. ![]() My love of this period dates back to my first biography, of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, when I met the poets, Shelley and Byron and the young romantics navigating their way in a dynamic and fast changing world. My first novel of a series, 'The Marriage Season', was published 26th January 2023 and the second, 'An Unsuitable Heiress', on 22nd May 2023. ![]() After a career writing biographies, with pleasure and some success, I have recently discovered the joy of writing historical fiction, specifically set in the Regency in the time of the Napoleonic Wars. ![]() ![]() My name is Jane Dunn and I'm so pleased to meet you here. ![]()
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