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| Thomas Robinson Leadam, the 3rd generation of Leadams to live at No. 65 Tooley Street |
I studied history at university but that was sometime ago. Having worked in local government for many years I am now embarking on what I have always wanted to - write.
My current writing project is a series of novels called Tales of Tooley Street. Volume One, Sinclair, will be available in the Spring of 2017.
My stories are based in late eighteenth century Southwark on the South Bank of the Thames in London and are inspired by the Leadam family; a real family of apothecary surgeons who lived and worked at No. 65 Tooley Street for three generations.
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| Dr. Robely Dunglinson, personal physician to Thomas Jefferson, the father of American Physiology, and son-in-law to John Leadam, the 2nd generation to live at No.65 Tooley Street |
The Leadams were what we call GPs today. They worked at Guy's Hospital and specialised in obstetrics.
My Tooley Street Tales are historical fiction and romances with a realistic and feminist edge.
I take the view that a successful life is one of joint enterprise between men and women and although the women in my stories operate in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, which was a time of rampant sexism and legal restrictions, the women in my stories find love and fulfilment with men who respect and honour them.
