Erica Lainé has been an actress,
a beauty consultant, a box office manager for an arts festival, a domiciliary
librarian, a reader liaison officer, a speech and drama teacher, a writer of
TEFL textbooks for Chinese primary schools, and an educational project manager
for the British Council in Hong Kong. She was awarded an MBE for her work
there. She summed up that work with the quote, ‘He jumped on his horse and rode
off wildly in all directions.’
She lived in London in the late
50s as a drama student and then as a young wife and mother until 1977. After
her life in Hong Kong she came to south west France in 1997 with her architect
husband to the glorious house he had designed, a conversion from a cottage and
barn. She lives here with him, a cat and a dog and rooms filled with a lifetime
collection of books. She is president of An Aquitaine Historical Society and
through that organisation came to know about Isabella of Angoulême, the subject
of her trilogy. She continues to be fascinated and intrigued by 13th century
France and England and their tangled connections.
You can follow Erica on Facebook
where she has a page as Isabella of Angouleme. She posts all sorts of
historical snippets and images. https://www.facebook.com/ericalaineauthor
https://twitter.com/LaineEleslaine where Erica tweets about just everything! But especially books and writing, gardens
and gardening, and many a rant!
Erica has a web page, which is
about observations of life in France, a miscellany of her interests, and of course
her writing and events attached to that.
Erica also has a Facebook page
for An Aquitaine Historical Society, which has information about talks and
where she posts about all things historical, both English and French.
https://www.facebook.com/An-Aquitaine-Historical-Society-952885338058987/
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