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 | 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...