Good News and Bad News from Mrs Finnegan
What do you want first? I don’t need to ask: you are a staunch, sensible body of readers – very similar to myself – able to LOOK calamity in the … Continue reading
You Wait and Wait and Wait then suddenly Mrs Finnegan has an ANNOUNCEMENT
Glorious news! My PRECIOUS manuscript is SAFE in the hands of the printer who has already created a cover of exceptional beauty.It was dropped into my lap by a special … Continue reading
Joy be Unbounded! Mrs Finnegan’s Book is on its Way to the Printer
Dear, Delighted, Devoted Readers did you think this day would never come? I confess that there were moments when I myself DOUBTED if my small enterprise would ever reach fruition. … Continue reading
What Mrs Finnegan Discovered Rummaging in the Master’s Drawers
Late spring is the time for tackling those domestic duties you have been putting off which is why myself and a parlour maid peered into the forbidding CACOPHONY that is … Continue reading
Mrs Finnegan and the New Butler get “acquainted”
In my last missive, I mentioned – in passing – that the new butler had arrived. Mr Cubbage. Many have written asking what happened at our introduction. I DON’T know … Continue reading
Sometimes Mrs Finnegan WISHES she wasn’t a housekeeper
Housework – usually performed by women – is the work that it is not noticed until it hasn’t be done. I suspect that NO ONE in the history of time … Continue reading
Opening Pages — A Podcast from Mercia Press
From a cosy bookshop in Cork City comes voices from Ireland’s oldest independent publishing house. In free podcasts Mercier Press authors read their opening pages, sharing the stories behind their … Continue reading
Mrs Finnegan is on the Cusp of Change
The Regency Town House Housekeeper has a spring in her step and a GLINT in her eye. I am NOT a woman easily flustered. Indeed my husband has often remarked … Continue reading
A Generous Irish Short Story Competition for Anyone, Anywhere
The Moth Short Story Prize is an international prize, open to anyone from anywhere in the world, as long as their story is original and previously unpublished. The winning story … Continue reading
Mrs Finnegan Encounters a Rocky Place and Requires URGENT Assistance
You will want to know how The Book is progressing. Many tell me it is their first thought upon awakening in the morning and their last gauze-like reflection as they … Continue reading
I Can So I Will
Mrs Finnegan Faces Tomorrow with a New Pot of Ink Dear friends, readers, fellow housekeepers, staff members, wayfarers and casual acquaintances My book burnt to a crisp on the VERY … Continue reading
Mrs Finnegan: Why I have been Silent for So Long
The Regency Housekeeper reveals the tragic reason why she has been unable to write since the New Year. But first a recipe for lard face cream…
Writing History in a Regency Kitchen
Join me in a three week course for fiction writers, historians and absolute beginners Designed for beginners, emerging writers and authors wanting to explore a new field, you will be … Continue reading
Mrs Finnegan Looks Back with Regret and Prepares for the Future with a Flicker of Hope
Well, how was your Christmas? If it was something of a disappointment let me put a SMILE on your face by drawing attention to the year I was invited to … Continue reading
BRIDGET WHELAN writer 