Continuing from my previous blog, looking at ways in which an historical novelist can try and achieve authenticity in their writing, today I am looking at depicting the historical thought-world, including such aspects as religion and superstition. As I showed in an earlier blog post (The problem with historical fiction (I), 2nd November 2016), …
Month: February 2017
Authenticity in historical fiction (III)
Continuing from my previous blog, looking at ways in which an historical novelist can try and achieve authenticity in their writing, today I am looking at portraying the social context of the time, and describing physical details, such as clothes and food. Social context What was it like to live in the fourteenth century? The …
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