The Colchester Gazette, And General Advertiser for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Herts Select an optionWhole documentPage 1Page 2Page 3Page 4 The Colchester Gazette, And General Advertiser for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Herts Full (unformatted) newspaper text The following text is a digital copy of this issue in its entirety, but it may not be readable and does not contain any formatting. To view the original copy of this newspaper you can carry out some searches for text within it (to view snapshot images of the original edition) and you can then purchase a page or the whole document using the 'Purchase Options' box above. Advanced Search / Help Free Delivery On Furniture Over £150 Free Click & Collect 1000s More Products Available Instore * click here to find your nearest storeHave you seen Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries? I recently discovered the Australian television show, which is based on Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher mystery novels, and now I'm absolutely hooked.

Set in Melbourne, Australia in 1928, the series follows lady detective Phryne Fisher as she solves murders on what seems like a weekly basis. Phryne is a modern woman of independent means who drives a Hispano-Suiza, drinks dark liquor, flies airplanes, speaks Mandarin Chinese, and has affairs with some very good-looking men. Phryne is always decked out in the latest fashions (for 1928, of course) that make our twenty-first-century wardrobes look like a hodgepodge of casual separates. If you live in the U.S., you can watch the first season on Acorn Online or purchase the DVD online. (If you like the first episode, beware of binging on the rest of them as I have.) The show is stylish, fun, a little lighthearted, and well-written. I have two remaining episodes to watch, and I'm not sure what I'm going to do once I finish them. The second season is currently being filmed in Australia as I write this, so I'm sure that means American viewers will have to wait until next Spring to catch new episodes.

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I am releasing e-book editions of all my novels in all territories outside North America (where they are already published). This will be under my own imprint—Sandra Gulland Ink—so I'm quite excited about it. Set in 1923 against a background of the Great War, grieving war widow, Helen Morrow and her husband’s cousin, the wounded and reclusive Paul are haunted not only by the horrors of the Great War but ghosts from another time and another conflict. A coded diary provides the clues to the mysterious disappearance of Paul’s great grandmother in 1812. As the desperate voice of the young woman reaches out to them from the pages, Paul and Helen are bound together in their search for answers, not only to the old mystery but also the circumstances surrounding the death of Helen’s husband at Passchandaele in  1917. As the two stories become entwined, Paul and Helen will not find peace until the mysteries are solved. Coming in early 2013 from Pen and Sword Press, ROYALIST REBEL, a Novel Based on the early life of Elizabeth Murray, Lady Tollemache, Countess Dysart, Duchess of Lauderdale.

THE DREAMING: WALKS THROUGH MIST received an Honorary Mention in ForeWord magazine's Book of the Year Awards. That's it from the Hoydens for now...watch out for all these exciting new releases in the next 6 months! Cruck buildings survived until the Victorian Era -The Blacksmith's Gilded Lily“How it was – A North Lancashire Parish in the 17th Century” Bedstocks or beadsteads with chaff or feather mattresses.These were mostly 'tester' beds with curtains that could be drawn to provide warmth and privacy. An Ark storage box A man's chair, women's chairs had no arms so they could knit and sew From these simple rural surroundings in rural Westmorland Ella and Sadie Appleby, the two sisters in The Gilded Lily, are on the run. They set off for London, with only vague ideas that it might be some sort of promised land of milk and honey, that there would be glamour and fortune awaiting them there. For Charles II had returned

to the throne and London was at its most glittering and fashionable. What better way to see 17th century London than through their amazed eyes. As a writer I wanted to know how they would cope, and even more The Lady’s Slipper isThe Gilded Lily will be released in the UK Sept 13th I'm a day late posting to this blog. The reason: the final draft of my Work In Progress is due on June 15, the same day our daughter is due to give birth! This will also explain my current fascination with all-things-maternity in the 17th Century. In researching 17th century maternity wear recently, I came upon a treasure-trove of information on 17th century daily life in Holland, compiled by art historian Kees Kaldenbach. The facts of daily life are deducted in part from the detailed inventories of the Vermeer household, as well as paintings. The history geeks among us will know well the feeling of coming upon such a resource. I call it "Falling into the Black Hold of Research" when I emerge to see that hours have passed.

On courtship and making love Maternity dress and trousseau Children's chair, potty chair Baby child presented in a crisom Feeding brest milk/mother's milk Fire basket, fire holderA bed was made of three layers: a flat mattress filled with bedstraw, horse hair or sea grass. a soft cover filled with feathers, down or "kapok" from silk-cotton trees. This is the layer a person would sleep on. Every day the sheets and blankets were folded so that the head-end and the foot-end did not touch. The pillows had to be shaken and aired for one hour, to dry the feathers, which tended to lump. pillows (pillows, ear cushion, sit cushion, tapestry cushion — there were no chairs for the children. They were to use pillows when the adults used the chairs.); The Vermeer household of 3 or 4 adults and 11 children had few blankets. People slept sitting up, two to a bedstead, propped up by pillows. The children slept in wheeled drawers which slid under the bed.

bedsheets, pillow cases, bed linen: 8 pairs of sheets were valued at 48 gilders — the equivalent of a workman's wage for 24 to 48 days. In the cooking kitchen In the basement, or cellar In the inner kitchen Tables: fold-out table, pull-out table, round table, octagonal table, sideboard: This includes instructions on table manners. ("Do not propose to sing at the table oneself ; wait until one is invited repeatedly to do so and keep it short.") Foot stove: "One placed an earthenware container within the foot stove and filled it with glowing coals or charcoal. One then placed the feet on it. If a large dress was then lowered over it, or a chamber coat, it warmed both feet and legs." Pots, vats and barrels in the basementlarge chimney covering cloth; gold tooled leather (wall covering); Hall stand or hat stand; Cloth drying sticks: long, round sticks that rested on attic ceiling beams. The sticks were pushed through sleeves of wet clothes and thus would allow for drying.

Wood chairs, covered with red Spanish leather. Tapestry table rug: "Only the most wealthy of Dutch households put Turkish rugs on the floor."I hope you enjoyed this little trip back into the 17th century. Author of The Josephine B. Trilogy and Mistress of the Sun Read Part One, Part Two, and Part Three In my final installment of the witch trials of Connecticut, I begin withIn 1669, she was indicted for not having the fear of God as well as a familiarity with Satan. her herding cattle "with greate violence," bees swarming, a sick child that later died, "an ugly shaped thing like a dog" that had the head of Katharine, and telling fortunes. Katharine guilty, but the magistrates had doubts. The court refused to sentence her to death or imprison her. was banished from Connecticut and moved to New York. been accused of witchcraft, she wasn't welcomed in her new community, but due to good behavior, she was allowed to remain.

Witch trials reached their peak in 1692, the same year as the infamousFortunately, for the inhabitants of Fairfield, the craze of executions had passed in Connecticut. accused of bewitching a canoe and numerous livestock. made a child sick. She was searched for witch marks by a group of A young girl, subject to epilepsy and hysterics, was carried into theUpon seeing Mercy, she "fel[l] down into a fitElizabeth Clawson was on trial at the same time. women were bound hand and foot and put into the water (witchBoth swam, rather than sinking. Mercy was found guilty but Elizabeth Clawson had been indicted for "not having the fear of God" in her eyes and a "familiarity" with Satan. seizures, and a black cat came to her in a hen house. devil had come to her in the shape of three women, Mercy, Elizabeth,Many neighbors testified on the bewitching events. Goody Miller was merely accused, and Elizabeth was found not guilty. In 1693, Hugh Crotia was indicted for the familiar charge of not having