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Historical Novels

ANCIENT GREECE
BRYHER : The Gate to the Sea
(1959)
P GREEN : Achilles His Armour
(1955)
Naomi MITCHISON : Cloud Cuckoo Land
(1925)
Black Sparta
(1928)
The Delicate Fire
(1928)
The Corn King and the Spring Queen
(1931)
Mary RENAULT : The Last of the Wine
(1956)

BRITAIN IN THE BRONZE AGE
Rudyard KIPLING : Puck of Pook's Hill
(1906)
Rosemary SUTCLIFF : Warrior Scarlet
(1959)

ROME
P BENTLEY : Freedom Farewell
(1936)
Alfred DUGGAN : The Little Emperors
(1951)
Winter Quarters
(1956)
Three's Company
(1958)
Robert GRAVES : I Claudius
(1934)
Claudius the God
(1934)
P GREEN : The Sword of Pleasure
(1957)
Rudyard KIPLING : Puck of Pook's Hill
(1906)
Naomi MITCHISON : The Conquered
(1923)
The Blood of the Martyrs
(1939)
S PLOWMAN : To Spare the Conquered
(1960)
Rosemary SUTCLIFF : The Eagle of the Ninth
(1954)
The Silver Branch
(1957)
Margaret YOURCENAR : Memoirs of Hadrian
(1955)

BARBARIAN INVASIONS
BRYHER : Roman Wall
(1955)
Alfred DUGGAN : Conscience of the King
(1951)
Charles KINGSLEY : Hypatia
(1853)
Naomi MITCHISON : When the Bough Breaks
(1924)
L de WOHL : The Restless Flame
(1952)
Charlotte YONGE : The Cook and the Captive
(1894)

BYZANTIUM
Robert GRAVES : Count Belisarius
(1938)
John MASEFIELD : Basilissa
(1940)

NINTH & TENTH CENTURIES
Franz BENGTSSON : The Long Ships
(1954)
W G COLLINGWOOD : Thorstein of the Mere
(1895)
P DEARMER : The Dragon of Wessex
(1911)
Naomi MITCHISON : The Land the Ravens Found
(1955)
Rosemary SUTCLIFF : The Shield Ring
(1956)
Charlotte YONGE : The Little Duke
(1854)

ELEVENTH & TWELFTH CENTURIES
H C BAILEY : The Fool
(1921)
Alfred DUGGAN : Knight with Armour
(1950)
The Lady for Ransom
(1953)
God and My Right
(1955)
The Cunning of the Dove
(1960)
M HEWLETT : Richard Yea and Nay
(1900)
Laurence HOUSMAN : Little Plays of St Francis
(1922-35)
Charles KINGSLEY : Hereward the Wake
(1866)
Rudyard KIPLING : Puck of Pook's Hill
(1906)
Norah LOFTS : The Lute Player
(1951)
G MOORE : Heloise and Abelard
(1921)
Hope MUNTZ : The Golden Warrior
(1948)
Zoe OLDENBOURG : The World is Not Enough
(1949)
The Corner Stone
(1954)
H F M PRESCOTT : The Unhurrying Chase
(1925)
The Lost Fight
(1928)
Son of Dust
(1932)
Rosemary SUTCLIFF : Knights Fee
(1960)
Helen WADDELL : Peter Abelard
(1933)
H WHITE : Bird of Fire
(1958)

THIRTEENTH CENTURY
E ALMEDINGEN : The Inmost Heart
(1949)
Alfred DUGGAN : Leopards and Lilies
(1954)
Zoe OLDENBOURG : Destiny of Fire
(1960)
M Stepney RAWSON : Morlac of Gascony
(1915)
V SCUDDER : Brother John
(1927)
Geoffrey TREASE : The Barons' Hostage
(1952)
H WHITE : A Watch in the Night
(1935)
L de WOHL : The Quiet Light
(1950)
Charlotte YONGE : The Prince and the Page
(1865)

FOURTEENTH CENTURY
F CONVERSE : Long Will
(1903)
G DAVIOT : Richard of Bordeaux
(1933)
C HARNETT : The Woolpack
(1951)
For Madox HUEFFER : Ladies Whose Bright Eyes
(1911)
H NEWBOLT : The New June
(1909)
G OLIVIER : The Broomscod Collar
(1930)
R POWER : Red Cap Runs Away
(1950)
V SCUDDER : The Disciple of a Saint
(1907)
Anya SETON : Katherine
(1954)
Sigrid UNDSET : Kristin Lavransdatter
(1930)
Sylvia Townsend WARNER : The Corner that Held Them
(1940)

FIFTEENTH CENTURY
E ALMEDINGEN : Stephen's Light
(1956)
P ANDREW : The Hooded Falcon
(1960)
P CARLETON : Under the Hog
(1939)
C S FORESTER : The Earthly Paradise
(1940)
C HARNETT : A Load of Unicorn
(1959)
J JENSEN : Christopher Columbus
(1922)
Rudyard KIPLING : Rewards and Fairies
(1910)
D MEREZHKOVSKY : The Forerunner
(1902)
C OMAN : Crouchback
(1929)
O ONIONS : Poor Man's Tapestry
(1946)
Arras of Youth
(1949)
A Penny for the Harp
(1952)
Charles READE : The Cloister and the Hearth
(1861)
Geoffrey TREASE : Snaring the Nightingale
(1959)
Charlotte YONGE : The Dove in the Eagle's Nest
(1866)

SIXTEENTH CENTURY
R H BENSON : The Queen's Tragedy
(1906)
John BUCHAN : Witchwood
(1927)
The Blanket of the Dark
(1931)
E CHARLES : The Schonberg-Cotta Family
(1864)
Marchette CHUTE : The Wonderful Winter
(1956)
Rider HAGGARD : Montezuma's Daughter
(1893)
Lysbeth
(1901)
M HEWLETT : The Queen's Quair
(1904)
Ford Madox HUEFFER : The Fifth Queen
(1906)
Privy Seal
(1907)
The Fifth Queen Crowned
(1908)
Margaret IRWIN : Gay Galliard
(1941)
Young Bess
(1944)
The Captive Princess
(1948)
Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain
(1953)
Charles KINGSLEY : Westward Ho !
(1855)
Rudyard KIPLING : Rewards and Fairies
(1910)
A MANNING : The Household of Sir Thomas More
(1851)
C OMAN : The Best of His Family
(1933)
Jean PLAIDY : St Thomas' Eve
(1954)
H F M PRESCOTT : The Man on a Donkey
(1952)
Geoffrey TREASE : In the Land of the Mogul
(1938)
F WALDEN : The Negotiators
Stanley WEYMAN : The House of the Wolf
(1891)
A Gentleman of France
(1893)
Count Hannibal
(1901)
L de WOHL : The Golden Thread
(1953)
Charlotte YONGE : The Chaplet of Pearls
(1868)
Unknown to History
(1882)
The Armourer's Prentices
(1884)

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
K BIGGS : Hobberdy Dick
(1955)
BRYHER : Player's Boy
(1957)
S R CROCKETT : The Raiders
(1894)
The Men of the Moss Hags
(1895)
Conan DOYLE : Micah Clarke
(1889)
Margaret IRWIN : Royal Flush
(1932)
The Proud Servant
(1934)
The Stranger Prince
(1936)
The Bride
(1939)
M JOHNSTON : By Order of the Company
(1900)
M JOKAI : The Slaves of the Padishah
(1903)
Rudyard KIPLING : Rewards and Fairies
(1910)
M & C LEE : Rosamund Fane
(1870)
The Oak Staircase
(1872)
Rose MACAULAY : They Were Defeated
(1932)
Capt MARRYAT : Children of the New Forest
(1847)
J H SHORTHOUSE : John Inglesant
(1880)
Geoffrey TREASE : Trumpets in the West
(1947)
Stanley WEYMAN : The Long Night
(1903)
My Lady Rotha

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
E ALMEDINGEN : Young Catherine
(1937)
Fair Haven
(1956)
Gertrude ATHERTON : The Conqueror
(1902)
Hillaire BELLOC : The Girondin
(1911)
D K BROSTER : Sir Isumbras at the Ford
(1918)
The Flight of the Heron
(1925)
The Gleam in the North
(1927)
The Dark Mile
(1929)
Elizabeth COATSWORTH : Five Bushel Farm
(1939)
Away Goes Sally
(1951)
Charles DICKENS : A tale of Two Cities
(1859)
Leon FEUCHTWANGER : Jew Suess
(1926)
Rachel FIELD : Calico Bush
(1931)
Esther FORBES : Johnny Tremaine
(1943)
Anatole FRANCE : The Gods are Athirst
(1927)
Robert GRAVES : Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth
(1940)
Proceed, Sergeant Lamb
(1941)
C HARNETT : The Great House
(1949)
Victor HUGO : Ninety-Three
(1874)
Mary JOHNSTON : Lewis Rand
(1908)
D KER : Cossack and Czar
(1899)
Rudyard KIPLING : Rewards and Fairies
(1910)
John MASEFIELD : Dead Ned
(1938)
Cornelia MEIGS : Master Simon Garden
(1916)
Clearing Weather
(1928)
The Willow Whistle
(1931)
Wind in the Chimney
(1934)
The Covered Bridge
(1936)
Naomi MITCHISON : The Bull Calves
(1947)
Sir Walter SCOTT : Waverley
(1814)
The Antiquary
(1816)
Heart of Midlothian
(1818)
Rob Roy
(1818)
W O STEELE : The Far Frontier
(1960)
William THACKERAY : Henry Esmond
(1852)
Geoffrey TREASE : Thunder of Valmy
(1960)

NAPOLEONIC TIMES
D K BROSTER : The Yellow Poppy
(1920)
Conan DOYLE : Rodney Stone
(1896)
C S FORESTER : The Gun
(1933)
Thomas HARDY : The Trumpet Major
(1880)
The Dynasts
(1904-8)
Georgette HEYER : An Infamous Army
(1937)
A MANZONI : The Betrothed
(1834)
Hippolito NIERO : The Castle of Fratto
(1860)
Robert Louis STEVENSON : St Ives
(1897)
Leo TOLSTOY : War and Peace
(1868-86)

NINETEENTH CENTURY
R BACCHELLI : The Mill on the Po
(1952)
Pearl BUCK : Imperial Woman
(1956)
D CHARQUES : Time's Harvest
(1940)
Stuart CLOETE : Turning Wheels
(1937)
Rider HAGGARD : Swallow
(1899)
F Tennyson JESSE : Lacquer Lady
(1929)
M M KAYE : Shadow of the Moon
(1937)
M KENNEDY : Troy Chimneys
(1952)
A Night in Cold Harbour
(1960)
G di LAMPEDUSA : The leopard
(1960)
John MASTERS : Nightrunners of Bengal
(1951)
The Deceivers
(1952)
D L MURRAY : Trumpeter Sound
(1933)
Helen SIMPSON : Boomerang
(1932)
F A STEEL : On the Face of the Waters
(1897)
Stanley WEYMAN : Chippinge
(1906)
Francis Brett YOUNG : They Seek a Country
(1937)

USA
S BENET : John Brown's Body
(1928)
Winston CHURCHILL : The Crisis
(1903)
Coniston
(1906)
Howard FAST : Freedom Road
(1946)
William Dean HOWELLS : The Rise of Silas Lapham
(1884)
Helen Hunt JACKSON : Ramona
(1913)
M JOHNSTON : The Long Roll
(1911)
Ceasing Fire
(1912)
Evelyn LAMPMAN : Tree Wagon
(1953)
Cornelia MEIGS : Swift Rivers
Margaret MITCHELL : Gone with the Wind
(1936)
Laura Ingalls WILDER : The Little House in the Big Woods
(1932)
Farmer Boy
(1933)
The Little House on the Prairie
(1935)
Little Town on the Prairie
On the Banks of Plum Creek
(1937)
On the Shores of Silver Lake
(1939)
The Long Winter
(1940)
Owen WISTER : The Virginian
(1902)

PANORAMA NOVELS
John BUCHAN : The Path of the King
(1921)
V HAWTREY : In a Desert Land
(1915)
Rudyard KIPLING : Puck of Pook's Hill
(1906)
Rewards and Fairies
(1910)
Norah LOFTS : Bless This House
(1954)

READING
Herbert Butterfield : The Historical Novel
(1924 CUP)
A Fleishman : The English Historical Novel - Walter Scott to Virginia Woolf
(1971 Baltimore)
D D McCarry & S Harriman White : World Historical Fiction Guide
(1973 Scarecrow, Metuchen NJ. 2nd Ed)
(Ed) Irene Collins : Recent Historical Novels (1990 Historical Assoc., London)

Related Writers

Thomas Hardy
Laurence Housman
Charles Kingsley
Jean Plaidy
Sir Walter Scott


See also

William Harrison Ainsworth
John Francis Russell Fearn
Joseph Smith Fletcher
Dr William Gordon Stables