Historical Hussies

 Early in my writing career, the best piece of writing advice I ever got—right behind “be persistent”—was “write what you love.” So I did.  ...

One trope or event found very often in period romances is “the swoon.” It is true ladies did faint with some frequency in the Georgian, Rege...

  by Donna Hatch www.donnahatch.com In our informal modern society, it’s socially acceptable to introduce ourselves to a stranger witho...

Although the first entertainment one usually thinks of when talking of the Regency period is usually a ball, musical evening, cards, or da...

The turn of the 19th century was quite a bit wilder and an extremely bawdy period as we approach the Regency period. The 18th century had be...

Thanks to Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series, many readers of romance know about the Jacobite Rising of 1745 and how the Scottish Highland c...

Underwear, garments worn underneath outer garments, has been in existence for thousands of years. The first form was the simple loincloth t...