Monica Fairview, Author

It’s Travelling Tuesday on Austenesque Extravaganza , and here you are on one of the three stops you will be taking on your journey. On any Regency-era journey, you’ll find it essential to halt at inns along the way to exchange your horses and partake of refreshments. On this particular journey, you will be partaking in a refreshing exchange of opinions regarding the nature of Jane Austen’s Rogues. Your three inns today are The Birchall , The Adams and The Fairview. With clearly premeditated planning, some Rogues have caused a boisterous altercation at each of the three inns. Hopefully the altercations will be dealt with quickly or we will need to request the intervention of our kind landlady Meredith of Austenesque Reviews . Meanwhile, to assess the situation, we have asked one of our innkeepers, a Ms. Alexa Adams , the Authoress of a volume entitled First Impressions: A Tale of Less Pride and Prejudice to provide us with her impressions of the afore-mentioned Rogues in t...

The long-awaited moment has arrived. Series 3 of Downton Abbey is here!   My verdict on the first episode?   Hard to talk about it without adding spoilers, but I can summarize it by saying that it's off to a good start. Enough tension to keep you interested, a moment that brought a tear to my eye, and some great dynamics with Shirley Maclain entering the frey, the Dowager holding her own, and Matthew's mother putting up a good fight. Overall I'd give it **** stars, mainly because it took me a few minutes to get back into it. Other than that, a familiar, comfortable thing to watch, with the usual wonderful cast and everyone still in character. Looking forward to more!   

  Austenesque Extravaganza Master Schedule A whole month celebrating Jane Austen, Jane Austen sequels, films, and all the things you enjoyed. I'll be appearing on September 18th for a discussion with authors Diana Birchells and Alexa Adams on The Rewards of Rogues in Austen. Looking forward to seeing you there!