Jane Stokes

Jane Stokes is a born and bred Londoner with a love of the city’s culture and history. Her career has been spent teaching and researching at Universities in London and Los Angeles before committing to a career in writing. Her work celebrates the multiculturalism and diversity of her native city.

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MRS HIGFORD BURR AND THE FRESCOES

An extract from a four handed drama about the impact of new technologies on art, set against the background of civil war in Italy in the 1860s.

Mrs Higford Burr and the Frescoes tells the story of the eponymous English painter who created copies of the Giotto frescoes in the Arena Chapel in Padua, Italy while outside the war between the forces of the Risorgimento and the Austrian army raged. Mary thinks that her paintings are the only ways these works will be preserved but it’s a race against time as the war threatens to encroach the walls of the sacred chapel. But she also has a bigger threat to confront when Jean-Luc Corbet brings a new technology which could bring about her defeat or her salvation.