by Kate Dolan | Feb 6, 2012 | Latest Posts, Living History, Regency
If you look at the way love has been portrayed in fiction over the last 200 years, you might think that human nature has changed drastically. In Francis Burney’s Camilla, for example, published in 1796, the virtuous young hero considers his engagement with the...
by Kate Dolan | Jan 20, 2011 | Latest Posts, Living History, Regency
Anybody who is disappointed that Jane Austen did not write more books should read the stories of Frances Burney. I don’t think her writing is quite as skillful, but her books are every bit as entertaining and because she wrote in the late 18th and early 19th...