Research Paper On Cindy Anstey

Cindy Anstey is a Canadian author that writes mystery, romance, and young adult novels. She started writing from a very young age and combined with her love for art and an over active imagination, she was a writer and illustrator right from grade school. By the time she was twelve she had written her first novel King Nap in the Land of Doze that made quite the impression on her family. She continued to write classics such as Jungle Bungle while she was living in Singapore and Montreal until she moved to Memphis after getting married. Over the years she gravitated towards adult regency romance, paranormal, young adult and mystery fiction. When she moved to Belgium with her husband, she suddenly found herself with so much time on her hands that

Anstey sets her novels in this period of manners and high society, and has her protagonists as women who go against the normal mold of fashion and marriage. Cindy had always loved the traditional Regency romance and found the manners of high society enthralling even as she dug deep into the contradictions between her characters behavior and thoughts. Even as she set the tone and style of her novels in the Regency era, her first novel was inspired by references to secret messages that were passed across the Channel during the Napoleonic Wars. Reading about these secret messages gave her a lot of ideas on just what she could write about it and it was not long before she had drawn a villain alongside an interesting supporting cast. A lot of research goes into her novels to portray the mannerisms, social interactions, economics and history of the period as accurately as possible. Anstey spent a lot of time researching the cultural and social history of the 19th century and reading the fiction of the time from the likes of Jane

Robert Newton and Miss Lydia Whitfield. Robert has just come to Lydia's home in Roseberry Hall for an important discussion on legal issues involving Lydia and her uncle. Robert has been working under Mr. Lynch one of the most accomplished solicitors in London. Robert and Lydia talk about things to do with the management of the estate and important things such as what to do about her uncle's greedy predilections that threaten the long term profitability of the estate. Lastly they discuss Mydia's marriage and draw up a contract. While Lydia has never liked Lord Aldershot and he is also not keen on the idea of an arrange marriage, she had always known that her marriage would never be on the basis of love but of interests. The two draw up the contract only for Robert and Lydia to get kidnapped while they are out in town. Luckily they manage to get away but only to find that a mysterious person is threatening Lydia. Robert is on the brink of ruin and he needs to find just who is threatening his client before he destroys his reputation for