Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.
The fact is that I loved being in England.
I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
I read about the history of England, of Manchester. I wanted to know how people here live, their interests.
After college, I went to England and studied for a couple years.
I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.
I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for history - not just for the Middle Ages, but all periods of history. My favorites are medieval, Elizabethan, and Georgian; however, I've written stories set in periods as early as ancient Rome, right up to the Victorian era.
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.