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Really pleased to hear that the cat has been caught :-)




I also liked the Angelique books .............. in fact I still have them :-)

oh and the Hoares maggie ... if you have a male-line descendant in the back of a closet somewhere, our surname project would dearly love to have him get his DNA tested to try to advance our Hoare research

we do have a Hoare who was born in St Enodor and ended up in Dorset in the late 1700s (not the same clan as the one mine belongs to, according to the DNA) ... but we have no Hampshire Hoares in the project

we seem to have Cornwall Hoares (various spellings) and Devon Hoars who are not closely related, interestingly

my immediate male rellie tested for me, and miraculously got the close match with the Roche/St Austell crowd with a pedigree back to the 1500s, but I can get nowhere on paper myself ...

Rose when I get her home she is going to get a very good talking to, from both me and her mother I expect, although her mother will probably be as happy to see her as she was to see the other one when she got home from the vet

... i.e. not at all :-)


Syvlia, Angelique, a serious person such as yourself? I am shocked, I tell you.

so very pleased you now have pussums back <3

:-D :-D :-D :-D

So pleased she's been caught :-D :-D :-D

I'm afraid no Hoare's in the immediate family, though there's a Hoare firm of builders in Fareham who may be vaguely related.
My Hoares were definitely Hampshire based.

Just looked at the Angelique books. Are they as 'uplifting' as the covers suggest? :-D :-D :-S

I would have you know those books had some very serious historical aspects to them :-)


Actually, I was buying them as paperbacks in the early 60s, up to the time we left the UK in 1967. I don't think I bought any after we came over here ....................


but the covers are nowhere near as racy as those I've just seen on the internet!!!



I guess I must have the first editions .............. and thus the first translations!

Thank you Ann! I don't have her back yet ... someone has to go and get her by plane train or automobile ... haven't worked that out yet but she is safe at the neighbour's for a few days ...

Sylvia apparently the 'Serge' of Sergeanne did the research, and the 'Anne' did the writing, so yes, all historically accurate I'm sure :-)

I read this about them yesterday

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/04/1116709/-Books-So-Bad-They-re-Good-the-Ang-lique-Phenomenon

and the whole story reminded me of this true life one I saw in another forum a few months ago

http://www.damninteresting.com/welcome-to-the-jungle/

(long but interesting historical tale about a European woman in the Amazon rainforest c1750)

and I thought the same thing about that heroine as the dailykos author thought about Angélique ... all about her getting what she wants and who else dies in the process, who cares!

I really must re-read those books ..................

I've just read the synopsis of the first 2 books published on good reads quite recently (ie, based on the 1996 editions)


hmmmmmmmmmm



doesn't sound anything like the books I read!

apparently the translations were rather bad, and not just in the language sense ... e.g. an entire character omitted from one book who then appeared inexplicably in the next!

I'm getting tempted to get hold of one myself for summer reading in my lovely new garden :-)