Historical Belles and Beaus

There's something serious about olive-trees. Gnarled, ironhard, producing grey-green leaves and succulent salty fruits often for centur...

Grace Elliot - cat lover and romantic I recently met another English historical novelist on Facebook - Grace Elliot, and was interested to d...

Every era has its extremes of dress. The Sixties had micro-minis. The Roaring Twenties had flapper dresses. Georgian England had macaron...

  HOW TO TAME A RAKE Blake, Viscount Dangerfield must marry Wilhelmina Corbet, his cousin three times removed, or lose his inheritance. It ...

My historical short story, A New Dawn, is now available for FREE on my publisher's website. http://www.knoxrobinsonpublishing.com/bin...

As I wrote my ancient Athens mystery, A Pig in the Roses , I grew rather fond of the hero's family: Diokles himself, the determined but ...

A very fanciful news item made the rounds a few weeks ago: the discovery of the first gay caveman. When I saw the story, I figured the head...

Today at Historical Belles and Beaus we welcome historical author Diane Scott Lewis. Diane has a new historical release, Elysium, a story ...

During the English Civil War, a new tax on domestic consumption, excise, was levied by Parliament to pay for the war. By 1660, this applied...

I met Cynthia Neale in the historical fiction group on She Writes. Her debut novel, Norah , about an Irishwoman in 19th century New York is ...

I thought I'd look back over the history of art and literature, to understand the influences which informed romanticism and later, rom...

Linda Banche here. Today I welcome Abigail Reynolds and the latest book in her Pride and Prejudice Variations, What Would Mr. Darcy Do? . S...

Note: Abigail Reynolds will guest blog here tomorrow, and give away a copy of What Would Mr. Darcy Do? What Would Mr. Darcy Do? by Abigail ...

The Stolen Kiss, c. late 1780's By Raine Miller Do you ever use art as inspiration for your writing? I do. In fact it was a paintin...

With everyone in England getting a day off for the Royal Wedding, weddings are very much in people's thoughts and minds. In the sevent...