Rosy Cole was born and educated in the Shires of England and now lives on the West Sussex coast. A professional writer for over twenty years, she has worked as a Press Officer and Publisher's Reader and is a member of the Society of Authors (UK) and the Historical Novel Society.
Jane Austen, Susan Hill, Lawrence Durrell, Virginia Woolf
Favorite Books
Restoration - Rose Tremain,
Rites of Passage - William Golding,
The Waves - Virginia Woolf,
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf,
Sunset Song - Lewis Grassic Gibbon,
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
Favorite Authors
Anya Seton, Helen Ashton, Mark Twain, Susan Hill, Julian Barnes, Rose Tremain, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Forster, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Rachel Billington, Anita Brookner, Salley Vickers, Turgenev, Tolstoy,Flaubert, Zola, Colette, Mrs Gaskell, George Eliot, Louisa May Alcott, Rosemary Hawley Jarman, Dumas (the younger) William Golding, Kasuo Ishiguro, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Paul Theroux, Laurie Lee, Joanna Trollope, John Mortimer, David Lodge, Kingsley Amis, Jessie Kesson, Frances Wilson, Beryl Bainbridge, Isobel Colegate, Jane Austen,Thomas Hardy, Antonia White, Herman Wouk, Gerard W Hughes, Alice Thomas Ellis, Lawrence Durrell, Mary Webb, Susan Howatch, Kate Atkinson, Tracy Chevalier, Peter Ackroyd, Andre Gide....
She went to the Oratorio - Handel's setting of Alexander's Feast, at Covent Garden and says that on taking her seat in the balcony-box she was almost instantaneously observed by the Prince
'We ordain that the day of our ship's arrival at the place assigned for plantation in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God.'
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
The United States, the world, has a new President-elect.To enable a new era, he will need our goodwill. Whatever he gets wrong, he will need 'on the ground' support.