Lois Elsden

Writing by LoisMay 20, 2016

Imagined Spaces: Forests and the Fairy Tale World

Originally posted on witchesandfolklore:
The following is taken from a conference paper I presented at the Imagined Spaces conference at the University of Bristol in 2015. Fairy tales occupy an imaginative space in which they present a moral or social lesson by means of a series of simplified signifiers. Their locations are demonstrably not of…

Household affairs

Books by LoisMay 20, 2016

Dorothy Daisy

Writing by LoisMay 19, 2016March 31, 2019

Writing by LoisMay 19, 2016September 15, 2018

A chance encounter

I’ve been puzzling over a particular conundrum in the novel I’m writing, the fifth in my Radwinter series of genealogical mysteries. My main character Thomas Radwinter is a solicitor, but he is also an amateur genealogist, and as well as delving into the past and and finding the secrets hidden in his clients’ family histories, he […]