ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Historical Fiction is set in a real place, during a culturally recognizable time. The details and the action in the story can be a mix of actual events and ones from the author’s imagination as they fill in the gaps. Characters can be pure fiction or based on real people (often, it’s both).

Detailed explanation-2: -A story based on a real person, event, or time period is considered historical fiction.

Detailed explanation-3: -Historical fiction is a well-loved genre, but it comes with varying degrees of accuracy. Historical novels can never be one hundred percent accurate. The existence of major events and their key players are usually well-documented and are therefore considered to be true, but other details are overlooked.

Detailed explanation-4: -The difference is perhaps that the novelist declares that the account is fiction, and the historian calls it speculation. The historian uses speculation to bridge between one known fact and another, the novelist uses the imagination to create a story which links all the facts.