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01-08-2002, 10:54 AM | #11 |
Jack Burton
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quote: Mmmm! Avatar your profile says you are in Cambridge University. Do you work in the kitchens or something? please don't tell me you are a student in one of the world's greatest universities after a question like that!
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01-08-2002, 10:57 AM | #12 |
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quote: And it's even in my and your posts!! Baaaaad Avatar! [img]graemlins/nono.gif[/img] Tsk tsk
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01-08-2002, 11:38 AM | #13 |
Jack Burton
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My advice would be to write it from the viewpoint of someone of your own age. make yourself poor you'll have more to write about - you would have been working from the age of 7/8. Perhaps you should be a baker's apprentice [img]smile.gif[/img]
Of course your parents died last year in the plague and you have been looking after your siblings since then. Older sister is a prostitute working in nearby Whitechapel. You do a bit of pickpocketing on the side of course but doesn't everyone!
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01-08-2002, 11:41 AM | #14 |
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quote: If you don't mind doing a little research, the perfect book for you is Liza Picard's Restoration London, from St. Martin's Press. It's set in 1660, and to quote The Independent, "There is almost no aspect of life in Restoration London that is not meticulously described in these three-hundred-odd pages." I don't agree with all of her conclusions; simply because most people didn't write about sex, doesn't mean that it was of so little interest as Picard explains, for example. But her collection of material is fascinating, and she deals with everything from heating to noise to royal parks to waste disposal to slaves to meals to cosmetics to medical risks. Your imagination will definitely be sparked by reading the thing. [img]smile.gif[/img] |
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