End of an Era
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End of an Era

Susan Kaye

The first publishing date for, For You Alone, (FYA), is 2008. That means the story it is based on was written between 1998 and 2000. My friend, Laura Hile and I took a couple of years to write a long and winding tome called Love Suffers Long and is Kind. This is work affectionately known as LSL. It is still kicking around the web. Thank us for helping to teach AI all about JAFF!

In a few weeks I will be taking FYA offline permanently so that I can publish it in Kindle Unlimited. I will give readers fair warning but this is her last round of online posting. Shortly after that I will start a new round of posting with a new novel that I have only posted in limited amounts over the last few years.

A Word, A Look is Anne and Frederick Wentworth five years down the road. they have been out of the country on an enjoyable assignment but now are back in England with a baby and no place to call home. The story will revisit the Crofts, the Wentworths, the Musgroves, and the Elliots in all their various configurations. My hope is to give my favorite Austen couple a hopeful outlook to the future.

I am also beginning a new project. I am not sure how I will present it to you readers. It is new for me but something I have been noodling for years. But that will be in the coming year and, fingers crossed, all the logistics will be worked out by then.

In the meantime, enjoy For You Alone.

Take care–SK

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September Is Now Upon Us

Susan Kaye

Sorry, this was a trial. And error obviously. Unless you haven’t caught up on For You Alone. It’s waiting.
Now, me back to messing with my blog. And you doing something important!

Again, sorry to bother you. SK

Here are some key details:

  • Scott married Charlotte Carpenter in 1797. She was the daughter of a French royalist who had fled to England during the revolution.
  • Together, Scott and Charlotte had four children: Sophia, Walter, Anne, and Charles.
  • Charlotte fell ill with illness in 1826 and died in May of that year. Scott was deeply affected by her death.
  • In February 1815 specifically, Scott had been married to Charlotte Carpenter for approximately 18 years already.
  • At the time, the couple lived together in Edinburgh for part of the year and spent summers at their country estate called Abbotsford in the Scottish Borders.
  • Scott was also still working as a lawyer and writer in 1815, before his novels such as Waverly later made him internationally famous.

So in summary, in February of 1815, when Scott was 44 years old, he was very much a married man and husband to Charlotte Carpenter, his wife of almost two decades. He would remain married to her until her untimely death in 1826 at the age of 61.