by Stephanie Dray | Dec 23, 2011 | Miscellany
Guest Post by Gillian Bagwell Christmas lasted a long time in centuries past. The twelve days of Christmas began on December 25 and the season ended with Twelfth Night – the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6. In sixteenth and seventeenth century England there were...
by Stephanie Dray | Apr 4, 2011 | Historical Fiction Genre, Miscellany
It may come as a surprise to most people, but the dominant historical setting in commercial fiction isn’t Tudor England. It’s Regency England–the godzilla of the romantic fiction world. I’d like to point out a surprising number of similarities...