Dianna Richards
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Erica Ridley:
In an effort to determine how much champagne Major Blackpool could have on him at any given time, I was wondering how much of his leg was missing. Is it just from the knee down? Or is from his groin down? And what else can you hide in a wooden leg?
Erica Ridley
LOL. I like how you think!! Major Blackpool is missing his leg from the knee down, and is in dire need of some champagne.
Although wooden pegs were by far the most prevalent artificial leg during that time period, Blackpool splurged on an articulated prosthesis with foot and all, in a style that later became known as the "Anglesey leg" after that Marquis's similar cannonfire-to-the-leg disaster during the Battle of Waterloo.
Unlike the Marquis of Anglesey, however, no one has built a shrine or wrote rhyming poetry about Major Blackpool's lost leg. (Yet!)
Although wooden pegs were by far the most prevalent artificial leg during that time period, Blackpool splurged on an articulated prosthesis with foot and all, in a style that later became known as the "Anglesey leg" after that Marquis's similar cannonfire-to-the-leg disaster during the Battle of Waterloo.
Unlike the Marquis of Anglesey, however, no one has built a shrine or wrote rhyming poetry about Major Blackpool's lost leg. (Yet!)
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Jennifer Marner
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Erica Ridley:
In all of your books, but especially the Dukes of War Series, you always write from an atypical female heroine perspective. Your heroines don't usually "need" a man, they "want" them. Is there a reason why your heroines are such strong-willed women when you write novels from a time period when women were usually much more meek?
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