E. Bradshaw has lived in Derbyshire all her life (apart from a few years spent in York during her university days) and so she knows the countryside and villages as described in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ extremely well.
She is a country-lover, having been raised on a working farm and having spent most of her life living in the countryside. In fact, her family were tenant farmers for many generations, and were beholden to a local aristocratic family whose estate would easily rival Mr Darcy’s! Her great-grandfather scraped together all the money he could to purchase his farm from the Lord’s estate during the Second World War – and the family were no longer tenants from that day forward. As a teenager, E. Bradshaw actually worked in the stately house where the same aristocratic family still live to this day.
She has a passion for history and literature, and has a particular interest in the literature, art and culture of the Georgian and Victorian eras. She loves reading in her spare time and particularly enjoys reading work by Austen, the Bronte sisters, Gaskell, Hardy, and Fielding, to name a few.
E. Bradshaw has worked as an English teacher in the past, but she now works with troubled teenagers. Consequently, Lydia’s rebellious nature and Georgiana’s mistreatment at the hands of Wickham are situations that are all too familiar to her in her very busy day job!
She hopes you enjoy her books and thanks her readers for their reviews.
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