by Kate Dolan | Apr 4, 2026 | 19th Century America, Faith, Holidays, Regency
I’ve written four short novels and tons of blogs that center on Christmas traditions in Regency England, but I never even considered what Easter might have been like. What were Jane Austen and her contemporaries doing to celebrate the holiday? I was pretty sure she...
by Kate Dolan | Sep 27, 2023 | 19th Century America, Regency, Roaring Twenties
At some point while I was kid, I developed the idea that teenagers lived in some type of nirvana. It was a world where you had freedom and mobility—cruising in cars and staying up late—but without the crushing load of responsibilities that made adults so boring. I got...
by Kate Dolan | Mar 17, 2019 | Game of Thrones, The Irish
One of my law school professors told us that the name “Fitz” as part of someone’s last name indicated they were descended from a bastard son. Since Fitzgerald and similar names are commonly perceived as very Irish, I thought a blog about bastard names would tie in...
by Kate Dolan | Oct 17, 2013 | Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Regency
Charades is a game I often dread playing with my family (both my daughter and my step-daughter have a maddening propensity to act out the same title over and over–or worse yet, make the rest of us act it out). But in an era before TV and movies, I probably would...
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...
