Welcome to The Darling Academy! A lifestyle website and ministry for housewives, homemakers, and traditionalists. A place to embrace your love for home, and your role in it.
Alena Kate Pettitt, is an author, blogger, and advocate for women, writing about homemaking, motherhood, and traditional living. A stay-at-home wife, and mother to a teenage son, she is passionate about inspiring women to embrace their role at home with grace and passion. She has written two books; Ladies Like Us, and English Etiquette which focus on faith, femininity, kindness, good manners, and the beauty of traditional womanhood.
She grew up in London and The Cotswolds, working in the fast-paced and cut-throat beauty industry, yet she secretly longed to be a homemaker and mother — rejecting the “girl boss” ideal she always felt pressured to pursue.
In 2019, she was invited by the BBC to share her story of embracing a traditional role at home, and how her writing was challenging modern societal expectations. Since then, she has appeared on numerous radio stations, and in magazines and news outlets all over the world, advocating for women who choose and wish to embrace this path.
Alena now lives in Australia with her husband, son, and their two British Shorthair cats, Betty and Violet, in a charming white weatherboard cottage. For her, writing and advocating for women like her is not a career but a calling — a way to uplift and give hope to ladies from all walks of life who have been told that being a homemaker is “not enough.”
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