[This post was originally written for The History Girls blog site.] WHAT “problem”, you might well ask… When I first embarked on writing historical fiction several years ago, I edged my way nervously into a genre that I felt instinctively I loved but was also terrified of making a complete hash of. In 2015, a …
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Ancient or modern? Language in historical fiction
This post was first published on the History Girls back in December 2018. It is actually a combination of posts that I first wrote back in 2016, when I was starting out on my journey both as a blogger and as a published author. The topic I discuss here, the use of language in historical fiction, …
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Carolyn Hughes 