Jean Fullerton

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Jean's new novel, A Glimpse at Happiness, will be launched next week (19th November)

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Red House Coach Museum

A very old C spring traveling chariot circa 1770-80 in needof some TLC

Where ever I go I always have half an eye open for a story or research and this happened this week-end while I was away in Derbyshire’s beautiful peak district.

I visited the Red House Stable Coach Museum. Now, although you may not have heard of the museum, all you Jane Austen fans would be very well acquainted with the coaches housed and cared for by Caroline Dale-Leech.

London to Edinburgh stage coach called the Gay Gordon

They have featured in BBC productions Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility plus the film versions as well as Jayne Eyre and the recent film The Duchess.

Jean waiting for the Gay Gordon to leave

Caroline was a mine of information and was kind enough to allow me to climb in the coaches. As an author I try to bring the authentic feeling of living in a bygone age to my readers. In order to do this I strive as far as possible to experience the situation myself so it was an absolute joy for me to be able to experience the space and sensation of actually sitting inside the mail coach and stage coach.

I took hundreds of photographs but here are a few of the best.

The Gay Gordon Stage Coach

A mail coach, complete with mailman

Not Quite Lizzy Bennet

The Landau that Lizzy and Mr Darcy rode off in after their wedding

A Broughton

I found my Mr Darcy!

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