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Ronald McGowan

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I was born in 1947 when most of the map of the world was still coloured red and my home town, Sunderland, still built more ships than anywhere else in the world.
This was not to last. The Empire crumbled away from lack of interest, and so did the British shipbuilding industry, and by the end of the 1960s Sunderland had the highest unemployment rate in England.
If you want to know what it felt like to live in that time, you might care to try my semi-autobiographical 'What I did in my Holidays'.
I had the luck, skill and application - and encouragement from my family - to pass the exams for the local grammar school which was the only state-run school ever to be invited to join the Headmasters' Conference, the association of the most elite private schools in the country.
I came out of there with a scholarship to Cambridge University, which I had to turn down for family reasons which I am not going to go into here. . Instead, I went to Durham, and from there wasted years attempting to go further in Academia at Yale and Nottingham, before ending up, like Evelyn Waugh's Paul Pennyfeather, teaching.
After 12 months' hard labour at the chalkface I succumbed to the lures of Mammon and went into Government Service, which in those days paid very well and was highly respected. How times have changed.
It took me thirty years to raise the courage -and the money- to get out into the real world, and I have never regretted leaving early .
Since then I have studied at several universities on both sides of the pond, and concentrated more on writing.
My first novel published was 'Barset Revisited', which actually came out as a hard copy in the days before ebooks. it was so successful that the company that published it went bust so quickly that they never even got round to paying me any of the royalties they owed me.
Amazon are much better than that, Deo Gratias.
My first Jane Austen Amplification 'Pride and Prejudice' was written for a bet, to prove that there could be more than one side to every story, and that even Mr Collins might have his points. Since then I have had a great deal of fun writing about other neglected Austen characters ,and hope to continue to do so although osteoarthritis and RSI are making it more difficult with every book.
I am currently working on the further adventures of Mr Bennet, taking account of all the useful suggestions my readers have made. I am only just getting the hang of this technology lark, so I hope to add more later.

Ronald McGowan

3.7/5 ( ratings)
I was born in 1947 when most of the map of the world was still coloured red and my home town, Sunderland, still built more ships than anywhere else in the world.
This was not to last. The Empire crumbled away from lack of interest, and so did the British shipbuilding industry, and by the end of the 1960s Sunderland had the highest unemployment rate in England.
If you want to know what it felt like to live in that time, you might care to try my semi-autobiographical 'What I did in my Holidays'.
I had the luck, skill and application - and encouragement from my family - to pass the exams for the local grammar school which was the only state-run school ever to be invited to join the Headmasters' Conference, the association of the most elite private schools in the country.
I came out of there with a scholarship to Cambridge University, which I had to turn down for family reasons which I am not going to go into here. . Instead, I went to Durham, and from there wasted years attempting to go further in Academia at Yale and Nottingham, before ending up, like Evelyn Waugh's Paul Pennyfeather, teaching.
After 12 months' hard labour at the chalkface I succumbed to the lures of Mammon and went into Government Service, which in those days paid very well and was highly respected. How times have changed.
It took me thirty years to raise the courage -and the money- to get out into the real world, and I have never regretted leaving early .
Since then I have studied at several universities on both sides of the pond, and concentrated more on writing.
My first novel published was 'Barset Revisited', which actually came out as a hard copy in the days before ebooks. it was so successful that the company that published it went bust so quickly that they never even got round to paying me any of the royalties they owed me.
Amazon are much better than that, Deo Gratias.
My first Jane Austen Amplification 'Pride and Prejudice' was written for a bet, to prove that there could be more than one side to every story, and that even Mr Collins might have his points. Since then I have had a great deal of fun writing about other neglected Austen characters ,and hope to continue to do so although osteoarthritis and RSI are making it more difficult with every book.
I am currently working on the further adventures of Mr Bennet, taking account of all the useful suggestions my readers have made. I am only just getting the hang of this technology lark, so I hope to add more later.

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