![]() (Remarkably fine eyes!)Īnna: You’re always going on about his eyes! And yes, they are quite lovely, and it helps the man is rarely depicted in ruffles and lace, but it can’t just be about his looks, right? I’m an archivist by training and I got to play with lots of 17th century records, so the period was very much one of having real people in it for me, from my teenage years onwards.Īnna: Is there a particular event or person that/who has inspired your writing? MJ: I fell in love with Jacobean revenge drama as a teenager (because incest, murder, lust and black comedy – why would you not?) and then moved to Ashton-under-Lyne in Lancashire where local legend has it that Black Tom Fairfax was reburied under the chancel in the parish church.Īll very gothic and brooding. Logue to the 17 th century to begin with? Goes with the territory, right? She cannot, however, drive a car, which must at times be something of an inconvenience, especially when you live out in the booneys. And of course she knows how to drive a horse and carriage. She can also play the lute which now has me envisioning her with a cat or two at her feet as she warbles “ Drink to me only with thine eyes”. Fantastic, embroidered creations that make my efforts with a staple gun look just like what they are: pathetic. ![]() As a consequence of all that re-enacting, she also sews. Right: not that I got all of that off my chest, how about we get back to my guest, who not only writes but also re-enacts. So if you haven’t done so yet, buy her books and read them. Logue’s characters are all firmly for Parliament against a despot king-which does not in any way strip them of their humanity or their capacity for compassion. Her books about Hollie Babbitt and his troop of men will introduce you to the English civil War without as much as a pink ribbon in sight. ![]() You want gritty? You want quirky? You want books to cry over, laugh out loud at? You want depictions of battle, of death and loss that have your guts twisting in agony? You enjoy contrasting the total gore of all that violence with the glory of tender love? Well, dear peeps, you cannot go wrong with M.J. As my final guest in my 17 th century Glory and Gore extravaganza, I have the pleasure of welcoming M.J. ![]()
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