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What was it like to be imprisoned at Canterbury's Westgate Gaol? Find out here!

How would you have reacted if it suddenly became legal to arrest you on just a suspicion? And you had no right to defend yourself in court? Let's take a trip back in history to find out when that happened during the life of Jane Austen.

Today, I'd like to talk about some painful truths in our past and the not-so-distant past which partly inspired Obadiah's abusive father in my release A Heart to Treasure . Why write about domestic abuse? Because this scourge of society is still with us today, and in some cases, it goes unrecognized and unchecked. What was common in the Georgian Era? Joanne Bailey's study of more than 600 cases from the time period concluded that 92% of the time it was the man who was the abu