Historical Hussies

One of my favorite Christmas movies is the 1970 musical Scrooge with Albert Finney. The production values of the film are wonderful—as you w...

by Donna Hatch www.donnahatch.com There's nothing quite like the glimmer of a Christmas tree, brightly wrapped packages, and a yule log ...

Handfasting as a means of joining a man and a woman in marriage has been known in the Celtic world since ancient times. It is believed to ...

 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...