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By middle school, she had begun writing novels, but did not show them to anyone except a few close friends. Only when a book was completely finished did she try for publication. Although she is now known exclusively for historical tomes, she wrote in many genres as she was teaching herself to write.
Rosemary Sutcliff CBE (14 December 1920 – 23 July 1992) was an English novelist best known for children's books, especially historical fiction and retellings of myths and legends. Although she was primarily a children's author, some of her novels were specifically written for adults.
This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable works of historical fiction (in literature, film, comics, etc.) organized by time period.. For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; see also the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well ...
Quinn's novels often focus on women's unexpected roles in history [5] [6] such as military snipers, spies, and code breakers. Her works have been set in several historical eras, including five novels that take place during the Roman Empire, two books about the Borgias in the Italian Renaissance, and most recently a series of novels set in the 1940s and 1950s, centering on the events during and ...
A Celebration of Women Writers; SAWNET: The South Asian Women's NETwork Bookshelf; Victorian Women Writers Project; Voices from the Gaps: Women Artists & Writers of Color; The Women Writers Archive: Early Modern Women Writers Online; SOPHIE: a digital library of works by German-speaking women; REBRA: a list of women writers from Brazil.
It won the Costa Book of the Year and the 2012 Man Booker Prize; Mantel thus became the first British writer and the first woman to win the Booker Prize more than once. [44] [45] Mantel was the fourth author to receive the award twice, following J. M. Coetzee, Peter Carey and J. G. Farrell.
At the end of the 1930s, she commenced work on a new historical novel set in 18th century Scandinavia. Only the first volume, Madame Dorthea , was published, in 1939. The Second World War broke out that same year and proceeded to break her, both as a writer and as a woman.
Lauren Willig is a New York Times bestselling author of historical novels. She is best known for her "Pink Carnation" series, which follows a collection of Napoleonic-Era British spies, similar to the Scarlet Pimpernel, as they fight for Britain and fall in love.