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REPRESENTATIVE WORKS

Eligio Ancona
Elfilibustero 1866

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Rienzi, The Last of the Tribunes 1835
The Last of the Barons 1843

James Fenimore Cooper
ThePrarie 1823
Pioneers 1827

Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist 1838
A Tale of Two Cities 1859

George Eliot
Scenes of Clerical Life 1858
Romola 1862

Paul Leicester Ford
Janice Meredith 1899

Benito Pérez Galdós
Episodios nacionales, Series I and II 1873-79

Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter 1850

Pauline Hopkins
Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South 1899

Charles Kingsley
Westward Hol 1855

Harriet Martineau
The Hour and the Man 1841

S. Weir Mitchell
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker 1897

Charles Reade
The Cloister and the...

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1. Introduction
2. Representative Works
3. Definitions And Characteristics
4. Victorian Historical Fiction
5. American Historical Fiction
6. Realism In Historical Fiction
7. Further Reading
8. Copyright