AGES ERA PERIOD
RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY
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Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
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William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
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Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë
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Detailed explanation-1: -One of the most successful writers of historical novels is Hilary Mantel. Other writers of historical fiction include Philippa Gregory, Bernard Cornwell, Sarah Waters, Ken Follett, George Saunders, Shirley Hazzard and Julie Orringer.
Detailed explanation-2: -The best of his later novels are Redgauntlet (1824) and The Talisman (1825), the latter being set in Palestine during the Crusades.
Detailed explanation-3: -Since the appearance of the first historical novel, Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley (1814), this type of fiction has remained popular.
Detailed explanation-4: -WALTER SCOTT, celebrated by Marxist critic Gyorgy Lukacs as the founder of the historical novel, was born in Edinburgh 250 years ago on August 15, 1771. Born into the upper middle class, his family preserved a sense of tradition of one of the great Scottish clans.