Such a pleasure to be a guest on Ceri’s wonderful blog. I loved sharing my discovery of James Stanier Clarke and the inspiration his unnamed painting was for my new novel, Jane Austen’s Ghost. Clarke actually knew Jane Austen and in 1815 he hosted her at the Prince Regent’s London palace. Clarke showed Jane Austen the Carlton House library and the two of them exchanged a number of letters. You can read about him and Jane Austen here.
Helen McDonald
Helen MacDonald deals with the dead. Fascinated by the macabre history of anatomy and dissection, her books trace the origins of industry from the villainous bodysnatchers, Burke and O’Hare, to the modern-day antics of the…