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  Historical novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A historical novel is a novel in which the story is set among historical events, or more generally, in which the time of the action predates the lifetime of the author.
Historical fiction may center on historical or on fictional characters, but usually represents an honest attempt based on considerable research (or at least serious reading) to tell a story set in the historical past as understood by the author's contemporaries.
The genre of the historical novel has also permitted some authors, such as the Polish novelist Bolesław Prus in his sole historical novel, Pharaoh, to distance themselves from their own time and place in order to gain perspective on society and on the human condition, or to escape the depredations of the censor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Historical_novel   (804 words)

  
 List of historical novelists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This list may include any author who has written a historical novel as defined in the relevant article.
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
This page was last modified 10:15, 22 March 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_historical_novelists   (73 words)

  
 CORK Bibliography: Historical
This historical research explores the context of addiction in the nursing profession with reference to social, medical, political, and legal events from 1850 until the American Nurses' Association officially acknowledged addiction in the nursing profession in 1982 with guidelines for the impaired nurse.
The surviving historical texts, all later than Alexander's epoch, are based on a series of contemporary histories and especially on the 'Royal journals', an official diary written in the imperial court.
From historical information, we believe that the explanation for our findings lies primarily with the increasing poverty, disease, mental illness, alcohol abuse and criminal activity among women admitted to the hospital between 1860 and the mid-1870s, and improvements from around 1880, when old housing was replaced and prostitutes were moved out of the area.
www.projectcork.org /bibliographies/data/Bibliography_Historical.html   (16198 words)

  
 An Annotated List of Bibliographies and Companions for Critical and Historical Literature on Anthony Trollope's Life ...
This is very poor; I list it because it is inexpensive and readily available from used bookstores sites,and for the sake of completeness as the fourth of the handbooks on Trollope's novels.
It includes a list of books which contain remarks on Trollope's art and attitudes by contemporaries and respected late 19th and early 20th century writers which are more accurate and respectful of the man than some of what is sometimes assumed today.
Indispensable for its listings of early and recent editions and sets and its long bibliography from the late 19th century to 1990.
www.jimandellen.org /trollope/handbookbiblio.html   (992 words)

  
 The Observer | Review | Granta's grotto
Granta's list is a marketing exercise on behalf of contemporary literature, and was the brainchild of Desmond Clarke, who ran the Book Marketing Council in the early 1980s, before literary novelists acquired their present status as minor celebrities.
Granta's list, like all literary prizes, is an attempt to bypass market imperfections, and is loved and loathed by publishers, who are inclined to dismiss it as irrelevant when they aren't included, and to applaud its detachment and authority when they are.
AL Kennedy appears on the list for the second time, 'and if anyone was a certainty, she was,' says McCrum.
observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,868621,00.html   (1689 words)

  
 Cascoly - Amazon: Bookstore Dorothy Dunnett
Here she concentrates on the little known period immediately after the conquest of Constantinople, when the Byzantine empire struggled to survive in a corner of the Black Sea.
Never light reading, Dunnett is at the top of my list of historical novelists.
Among the other ideas she incorporates are the concepts of the pre-capitalist, pre-mercantilist kingdoms [in Bobbitt's terms, Princely states rather than Kingly states] where the 'monarch' might actually hold little land, and whose power relied on holding together an amalgam of territories that had no natural borders.
cascoly.com /bookstore/dunnett.asp   (1031 words)

  
 Historical Fiction Resources
Overbooked: Historical Fiction Stars - annotated list of hardcover historical fiction books that received starred reviews from at least one of several publications.
Lists of heads of state and heads of government of all countries and territories, usually going back to at least 1900."
Historical Fiction or Fictionalized History?: Problems for Writers of Historical Novels for Young Adults
manuscriptediting.com /histfic.htm   (529 words)

  
 History News Network
While it doesn't have a search function, British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index includes many authors of children's historical tales in its listings.
Soon Y. Choi has a good, albeit sporadically annotated, master list of historical novelists.
Karl May (German novelist heavily influenced by Cooper)
hnn.us /blogs/entries/12043.html   (193 words)

  
 Literary Criticism Study Guide
The historical approach, for instance, might be helpful in addressing a problem in Thomas Otway's play Venice Preserv'd.
Historical / Biographical critics see works as the reflection of an author's life and times (or of the characters' life and times).
New Critics refer to the historical / biographical critic's belief that the meaning or value of a work may be determined by the author's intention as "the intentional fallacy." They believe that this approach tends to reduce art to the level of biography and make it relative (to the times) rather than universal.
www.literatureclassics.com /ancientpaths/litcrit.html   (4347 words)

  
 no loss for words
Dan Brown is a fraud: A list of errors in Angels and Demons
Unfortunately, these many historians that he appears to believe seem to ignore the historical fact that the design was 18th Century rather than 20th Century.
His fudging historical facts, like the origin of the great seal (founding fathers, not Henry Wallace), that the Hashashin were eradicated by other muslims, etc., is simply unforgivable.
www.dannyscl.net /2005/01/dan-brown-is-fraud-list-of-errors-in.html   (15003 words)

  
 British Women's Novels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This is a tale of the two daughters that Mary Queen of Scots had in a secret marriage (need I add this is a historical fantasy?) The two daughters are raised in a hidden underground cave (the recess) and manage to get out and make the two worst marriages possible.
Unless of course you are a modern novel lover like the famed modern novelist who wrote the introduction to the Pandora edition and feels that maybe--if you accept that the novel is trashy soap opera--the book is worth buying more than a salad.
The heroine paints historical pictures to earn money and is pursued by a raping, murdering, kidnapping jerk who sends her off to the American wilderness.
locutus.ucr.edu /~cathy/womw.html   (4780 words)

  
 Alabama Historical Quarterly - Table of Contents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Alabama Historical Quarterly was published from 1930 to 1982 by the Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH).
417 Historical Sketch of LaFayette, Alabama, by Anne Elizabeth Newman.
199 Higginbotham, Fort Maurepas: The Birth of Louisiana, and The Journal of Sauvole: Historical Journal of the Establishment of the French in Louisiana by Robert R. Rea.
www.lib.auburn.edu /special/docs/ahistqtr.html   (9130 words)

  
 novelists - OneLook Dictionary Search
We found 4 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word novelists:
Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "novelists" is defined.
Phrases that include novelists: children's novelists, list of french novelists, list of historical novelists
www.onelook.com /?w=novelists   (100 words)

  
 Welcome to the Official Historical Novel Society Website
It is the only magazine of its kind, the best and most complete guide to the latest historical fiction in the world.
Historical Novels Review Online is our quarterly online publication, featuring reviews of electronically-published and self-published historical novels.
It will be launched at the awards ceremony for the Short Historical Fiction Prize, to be held in London on Sunday 5th of March.
www.historicalnovelsociety.org   (345 words)

  
 List of novelists
See also the list of novelists by genre
Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark[?] (1985), on which the film Schindler's List was based, Confederates[?] (1979)
Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832), innovator of the historical novel
www.fastload.org /li/List_of_novelists.html   (964 words)

  
 amy dumas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Lita The factual accuracy of this article is disputed Lita is an album by Lita Ford, released on February 2, 1988 on RCA Records.
Track Listing "Back To The Cave" "Can't Catch Me" "Blueberry" "Kiss Me Deadly" "Falling In And Out Of Love" "Fatal Passion" "Under The Gun" "Broken Dreams" "Close My Eyes Forever" (with Ozzy Osbourne) Lita is a performer in World Wrestling Entertainment.
Alexandre Dumas fils was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Catherine Labay, a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas.
www.searchtermtrends.com /terms/amy+dumas.html   (765 words)

  
 Amazon.com: King Hereafter (Vintage): Books: Dorothy Dunnett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Anyway, it's reassuring that the historical background is as good as she could make it, plus it's a ripping (hacking, stabbing, disembowelling...) good yarn.
Among the other ideas she incorporates are the concepts of the pre-capitalist, pre-mercantilist kingdoms [in Bobbitt's [Shield of Achilles] terms, Princely states rather than Kingly states] where the 'monarch' might actually hold little land, and whose power relied on holding together an amalgam of territories that had no natural borders.
Dorothy Dunnett has written an outstanding work of historical fiction that captures the spirit and style of the old Icelandic sagas, together with the humour.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375704035?v=glance   (1873 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | 100 things we didn't know this time last year
The existing record is 8.7 feet (2.65m), but a Turkish man claims to have broken the record with a 9.2 feet (2.8m) squirt.
Interesting historical footnote: Greg Dyke was on the Atkins diet at the time of the Hutton Report, he revealed in his autobiography.
You can see the back of your own head in some parts of the universe as time and light are so curved.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4134329.stm   (2401 words)

  
 Florida Folklife: Related Resources
More than 9,000 texts and photographs from the University of Miami, Florida International University, and the Historical Museum of South Florida document the intertwined natural and human histories of the Everglades region through photographs, drawings, writings, correspondence, and related materials from politicians, landowners, real-estate companies, scientists, naturalists, engineers, and Indian-rights activists.
The Southern Historical Collection was established in 1930.
Long known for its strong collections of antebellum plantation, Civil War, and Reconstruction South materials, UNC continues to acquire eighteenth- and nineteenth-century manuscripts along with substantial collections of twentieth-century materials.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/flwpahtml/ffrelated.html   (1718 words)

  
 Times & Places index page
If you would like a chance to correspond with your fellow novelists on the problems of the genres, we are now sponsoring an e-mail list at the most full-featured list host available (since they absorbed oneList and eGroups).
By concentrating on out-of-copyright work (or the occasional copyrighted work used with permission), they can give away free e-books.
These are often the old books an historical novelist is dying to get hold of, to view vanished world they come out of.
historicalnovelists.tripod.com /arealist.htm   (624 words)

  
 The Observer | Review | The Observer's contenders for 2003
First novel, Mary George of Allnorthover, shows she has what it takes in prose.
AL Kennedy (37) On the 1993 Granta list.
Knows how to take a historical event and dramatise it with the private intimacies of such moments.
observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,841375,00.html   (259 words)

  
 Cascoly - Amazon: Bookstore Historical Fiction
known more for excellent cyberpunk scifi, he's also written great historical fiction -- intelligent, complex and captivating- WWII submarine thriller with modern day techno-adventure Nazi subs, filled with gold, unbreakable codes, and enough paranoia and conspiracy to keep you reading and wishing the book was even longer!
Lymond Chronicles and Niccolo Series -does the Renaissance as masterfully as McCullough portrays Rome.
Baroque Cycle Volume 1:Quicksilver -17th century science - historical fiction
cascoly.com /bookstore/histfict.asp   (787 words)

  
 Free List of 400 Book Publishers and Book Editors for First Fiction and First-Time Novelists
These book editors listed below work for real book publishers, and they have bought first novels from new authors within the past two years.
For a list of 250 agents who have handled debut novels, see the ordering information below for the list of Literary Agents.
Adventure, anthologies, historical fiction, humor, inspirational, mystery, romance, science fiction, fantasies, suspense, thrillers.
www.bookmarket.com /newnovels.html   (8969 words)

  
 List of novelists - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
List of novelists - Questionz.net, answers to all your questions
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www.questionz.net /Countries/List_of_novelists.html   (472 words)

  
 Twentieth Century Irish Wordsmiths: Essayists, Writers, Novelists, and Poets - The Test List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Then - our Second List of Actors, and yes, our Third List, and finally the
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 Wisconsin Bibliographies in Women's Studies: Women Mystery Writers (Androski, 1995)
Roome, Annette (Britain) Series Character: Chris Martin, housewife turned reporter Setting: English town Time: contemporary First book in series: A REAL SHOT IN THE ARM, 1989 British Crime Writers Association Award winner.
Rowe, Jennifer (Australia) Series Character: Verity Birdwood, TV researcher Setting: Australia Time: contemporary First book in series: GRIM PICKINGS, 1991 "The Agatha Christie of Australia" Rowlands, Betty (Britain) Series Character: Melissa Craig, crime novelist Setting: Cotswolds (England) village Time: contemporary First book in series: A LITTLE GENTLY SLEUTHING, 1990 Good view of English village life.
Smith, Joan (Britain, 1953-) Series Character: Loretta Lawson, feminist literature professor Setting: London Time: contemporary First book in series: A MASCULINE ENDING, 1988 Irreverant look at academic politics.
www.library.wisc.edu /libraries/WomensStudies/bibliogs/mystery.html   (2973 words)

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