Annetje was also a teacher before dedicating herself to the family's businesses and researching historical points for her husband's novels.
[1] Since 1984,[4] he and his wife owned an art gallery called Clair de Loon[3] in Bar Harbor, where they sold matted and framed prints of his artwork.
Before graduating from Boston University, Meyer had already written two children's picture books for Little, Brown and Company.
[5] Meyer invented the idea for the character of Jacky Faber while listening to British and Celtic folk music on a local community radio station in his workshop.
Meyer describes the moment on his website: ...the host of the program plays a long string of early nineteenth century songs that feature young girls dressing up as boys and following their boyfriends out to sea, the most well known of these being Jackaroe[6] and Cana-di-i-o.
It occurred to me, however, to wonder what it would be like if the girl, instead of seeking to be with her lover, connives to get on board a British warship in order to just eat regularly and have a place to stay, her being a starving orphan on the streets of early 1800s London.
In August 2013, Meyer announced the publication of the final installment under the slightly altered title Wild Rover No More.