Mind Your Language if You Want to Keep Your Job, says Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper
It would be wrong to say Mrs Finnegan is back to normal. How could she be when her ENTIRE future still hangs in the balance? However, she is bolstered by … Continue reading
Small publishers are for risk, for poetry…for the future, said Cynthia Ozick QUOTES FOR WRITERS
They (small press publishers) concentrate on making room: for eccentricity, for risk, for poetry, for the odd essay and the odder fiction; for the future. Unexpectedness is what the small … Continue reading
Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper Hates Raisins, Education for Young Ladies and a Knock on her Door Late at Night
Mrs Finnegan remains the loyal, reliable and hard-working Housekeeper at The Regency Town House and continues to GIVE pithy and pertinent advice to readers but…her mind is ELSEWHERE. NOW MY … Continue reading
Overcoming double vision…Alexander Solzhenitsyn on World Literature QUOTES FOR WRITERS
World literature is capable of transmitting the concentrated experience of a particular region to other lands so that we can overcome double vision and kaleidoscopic variety, so that one people … Continue reading
A Dear Departed Husband Returns from the Past. Or Does He? Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper is is By No Means Certain
Mrs Finnegan is not herself today. She is not sure she will EVER be herself again. Of course, she is still looking after The Regency Town House and its residents. … Continue reading
The Importance of Boring Sentences – Lincoln Michel QUOTES FOR WRITERS
I appreciate the value of the boring sentence. Not, I want to stress, a lot of boring sentences. I still roll my eyes at the type of writer (mostly older white … Continue reading
A Knock on the Door Changes EVERYTHING for Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper
Mrs Finnegan, the hardworking housekeeper at THE REGENCY TOWN HOUSE, was looking FORWARD to an uneventful year in leafy Brunswick Square until yesterday evening. A loud rat-a-tat on her door changed … Continue reading
I have learned to trust in the ordinary darkness of a bedroom…says Doireann Ní Ghríofa QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Whenever my writing snarls itself into a tangle, I always take the same approach—I carry that horrible knot to bed and quench the lamp. Then, I wait. In the dark, … Continue reading
Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper has A New Mission for the New Year…
Expect no melodramas in The REGENCY TOWN HOUSE this year. Warmed by the SUNSHINE of smiles, Mrs Finnegan intends to run it with gentle words and the kind of careful … Continue reading
Why Books are just perfect – Stephen King QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable … Continue reading
Publishers Are Not Your Friends – from a publisher’s open rejection letter QUOTES FOR WRITERS
…all we can suggest is that you don’t trust publishers. They’re not your friends, and they’re not even that great at spotting what readers will like. If they reject your … Continue reading
5 things Mrs Finnegan did last year that she is really QUITE proud of…from the Chronicles of Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper
Mrs Finnegan – the acknowledged expert in life, love and LAUNDRY – looks back at the last 12 months at The Regency Town House And if the phrase celebrated housekeeper … Continue reading
An Open Letter to My (Numerous) Gentle Readers from Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper
I trust you have had a pleasant yuletide? Yes? Plenty of sweetmeats and sweet wine? People toing and FROING? Plum pudding perhaps? Mince Pies? Very good. I know you will … Continue reading
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