The Woman's Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000.(Book review) From: CLIO | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: Stec, Loretta | COPYRIGHT 2007 Indiana University, Purdue University of Fort Wayne. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The Woman's Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000. By Diana Wallace. Basingstoke (UK): Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xiii + 269 pages.

Diana Wallace asserts in her preface to The Woman's Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000 that '"historical fiction' is a kind of oxymoron" in that it forcibly joins the true or the factual with the imaginative or the invented. Wallace's nearly encyclopedic study investigates the complexity of this oxymoronic genre ...

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