Lee Welch previously shared with me about her version of Mr Collins. Today she was gracious enough to share about her writing process. [Read to the end for a chance to win a copy of Mr Collins in Love] Your day job is also as a writer. How do you swi...

The Amateur Austenite’s season of Emma is drawing to a close. For our final episode Rachel and I debated our preferred casting for an adaptation of Emma, based off the adaptations we’d discussed. I won’t build tension by starting with the most insign...

A brief overview of the Emma webseries we discussed on The Amateur Austenite Podcast from best to worst. Title: The Emma Agenda Details: 2017, 2 hours (60 videos), University Verdict: Even with low budget & sound issues, this felt genuine with em...

Lee Welch is a fantasy/historical romance writer based in Wellington. Like most Wellingtonians, she works for the government, but has a role inline with her interests: writing and editing. Mr Collins in Love is her first foray into Austen fiction, an...

Video and audio from Pride and Prejudice 1995 Featuring a (slightly modified) aromantic pride design you can get on a bunch of different items over on Redbubble I spoke on this topic at an Austen meeting, you can read it here

I needed to find a dress for Jane Austen’s birthday party. After a costume store failed, I found a dress hire place. Things didn’t start out great. The internet told me Attire for Hire was in the Johnsonville Mall. It was not. Eventually after circli...

When the Gardiners meet Mr Darcy in the company of Lizzy at Pemberley she is relieved to have “some relations for whom there was no need to blush.” Swiftly Mr Darcy brings his sister to meet them and the Gardiners recognise “that there was no other w...

On a recent episode of The Amateur Austenite I spoke about my theory of Schrodinger’s Rapist in relation to Mr Elton and Mr Collins. Already similar characters as they are male, clergymen, full of themselves, and determined to do well, when they prop...

Reading Living the Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron I came across this quote which really stuck with me; Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.” – Eckhart Tolle In a lot of ways pleasure is easy to find; a...

1995 was 30 years ago. Let that sink in. That was the year of the revival of Jane Austen. BBC released the hugely popular adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, there were movie versions of Persuasion (with Amanda Root) and Sense and Sensibility (directe...