Ha! She looks pretty much like I thought she would. If you were casting her, who would play her?

I agree! My mental impression was about right too!! Must be the skill of the author!

Not even close to how I pictured her. I never imagined her hair to be that frizzy. She looks like she just stepped out of Central or South America or the Caribbean.

Teresa -- I also have a sketch of her with her hair up, which might be more of what you were expecting.

There are more than a few people in England with hair this curly, by the way.

That's pretty close. Love the hair.

Not at all what I thought! I expected more refined features, more fragile looking. But I love this Rosina it helps. I can see Nathaniel's attraction toward this woman, the heart shaped face and accepting that this here IS ELLIZABETH I think yes it's right and she is beautiful.

I pictured her hair a bit less frizzy, but in my mind it was always up in some sort of hair-do. She's just as beautiful as I pictured though.

Just as I imagined - as someone said it must be the skill of the writer.
I envy her hair- imagine how hard it would be to have that beautiful hair and no conditioner LOL
(spoken with the envy only resident in those of us blessed with dead straight hair :))

Tell a woman with frizzy hair that ya like it and the usaul response is a 10 minute Tirade on how unmanagable it is :D.

I had the hair about right, but had envisioned her with more delicate features (nose & lips) too. However, this picture of her does seem to fit her personality more. And as Robyn said, I can see why Nathaniel would be attracted to her.

Very interesting.

I've always pictured Jane Seymour. I think somewhere along the way I'd forgotten your description and just made up my own. And I see Kristin Kreuk as Hannah, and my niece tells me I've got that completely wrong, too.

Just finished the "Oueen of Swords" and loved it like all the others! The hardest part is waiting for the next one :)
But regarding the drawing, the hair I always pictured thick but not quit that thick and I don't like the eyes, I always picured her with less bulging eyes....

bulging? (cough)

how about: deep set.

I think if I met her I would recognise her - she looks pretty much as I imagined her. She has to be one of my very favourite characters in fiction. But I don't have a clear mental picture of her mother, I would love for you to put up the sketch of her.

I never imagine Elizabeth with her hair down so that was a big shock, but the rest of her is more or less as I thought.
I always imagine Elizabeth with her long plait which Nathaniel likes to tug on.
And in her Quaker grey coming down the stairs to marry Nathaniel

The hair is bang on how I imagines but as others have said, I did picture here with slightly more refined features.

Your drawing of Elizabeth reminds me a little of Julianna Margulies from ER.

http://www.tv.com/photos/viewer.html?type=21&ref;_id=1327&ref;_type_id=104&pic;_number=7278

The hair is similar, you're right.

Hmmm...I didn't even notice, at first, that it said "Elizabeth, 1794" at the top so I've been trying to figure out who this was!! LOL!! I actually thought it was someone of African-American descent! So, I guess I have to say, no, it's not my picture of Elizabeth at all! But I bow to Rosina's perception of her own characters!!

I've bin waiting to see if any one else noticed..but I guess not. Must be just me. So I'l keep it to myself ;) :P

Thanks for sharing the sketches. My first thought was that she looks like you in your author photo, Rosina/Sara.

It is my curse to be technically minded, but what the hey, I'll post this:

In an era without shampoo, and when they did not bathe often, would her hair be that frizzy? I was under the impression that caps/headdresses were favored through history partly because hair was kinda dirty most of the time.

I know, I know -- artist's conception, etc. But I am actually curious about that.

(As an English/Scots on one side, Irish on the other, person with curly hair, I can attest to the curly-haired Northern European notion -- my brother's hair is also pretty wild.)

Spoke too soon! I noticed a lil Rosina in Elizibeth too.