5/22/2023 0 Comments Achieve by Jade Waltz![]() ![]() Gladstone’s Library, 10 April 2018: The Historical Novel: A Very Slippery Genre ![]() There’s a really good discussion at the end of the talk too.īelow is a copy of the outline and links I circulated at the talk. It’s here that I talk a little bit about my own novel, Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves. ![]() Part three is about a particular form of historical novel, the kind that tries to recover or reconstruct the history of those who are usually forgotten, disregarded or silenced by louder voices or brighter, shinier pens – they are usually the losers, in conventional terms at least. The second part is a very brief history of the development of the historical novel in the 19th century and its impact on the novel form more generally. The first part is a kind of Bibliomemoire where I talk about the role of historical narrative and detail in my childhood reading, including Jean Plaidy and Winston Graham’s Poldark series. And what a relief to discover that the first voice on the podcast was not my own, but the wonderful Louisa Yates, Director of Collections and Research, who introduced me. I dislike the sound of my recorded voice intensely, so it has taken me more than a year to get up the courage to listen to this. I’m posting a link to a talk I gave at Gladstone’s Library last year. Talk given as Writer in Residence at Gladstone’s Library in 2018 ![]()
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