Rose
Rose is English. She joined the board in 2008 and has never looked back! She is now applications moderator along with Betsy. Her other hobbies include music, more music & yet more music, drinking mead and unrequited love. Often at the same time.
Rose likes to use the phrase "special snowflake" to describe female characters with Mary-Sue tendencies.
Characters
- Viola Fitzgerald: Charismatic and clever society incomparable on cusp of spinsterhood.
- Olivia Fitzgerald: Charming yet insecure debutante with a secret engagement.
- Charlie Devenish: Impoverished but optimistic younger son with a taste for blondes.
- George Hackett: Serious minded heir to Earldom in search of a wife who already has a mistress and son.
- Eleanor Clare: Shy but intelligent schoolgirl with a fortune.
- Henry Layton: Frivolous and scandal courting Earl who lives to make trouble.
- Hermione Longstaffe: Bossy but inexperienced chaperone from the country.
- Catherine McAvoy: Bitter widow of an unpleasant husband taking advantage of her freedom with feminist tendencies.
All these characters come with a host of attached NPCs, some of whom are generally playable, others not. This will be clear on their pages.
FORMER CHARACTERS
Selina Clare: Self-centred wealthy widow from Bath in search of a second husband.
Areas of Expertise
Feel free to ask her anything, but she is more likely to know things about the following areas:
- Literature, especially novels, of the long eighteenth century (mid 17th century to about 1830)
- Classical languages and literature (Latin and ancient Greek)
- Titles of nobility
- Italy and Italian
- Oxford and Cambridge universities
- Classical music including vocal and instrumental technique
She doesn't know anything about:
- The military
- Money
- European history in the 18th century
Fanfiction
Rose has written the following stories for LL:
- Regency Christmas[1]
How Viola and Olivia's parents got together.
- The Sadder but Wiser Girl[2]
Viola's affair with Will Devenish and the aftermath of her first season.
- What's in a name?[3]
Viola and Olivia talk boys, babies and books.
Henry and Gwen play duets in the country.
- After the Opera[5]
The meeting of George and Patrizia in Florence.
- To Us the Path of Knowledge[6]
Wallflower Lady Cornwallis gains an insight into the character of Viola Fitzgerald at a Christmas house party.
- The Heir of Morven Castle[7]
Crack fic. AU next generation. WIP.
George and Charity on their honeymoond. AU.
- This Insubstantial Pageant[9]
Viola dreams at some point during the 1811 season.
She also writes Downton Abbey fanfiction as Silvestria[10].
Articles
Rose has written the following articles: