Genre Information At the Circulating Library

Genre: Historical Novel: Elizabethan

Description: The following novels are set in Tutor and Elizabethan times (the sixteenth century) or depict figures from Tutor and Elizabethan history.

  1. Anonymous.  Stanly: A Tale of the Fifteenth Century.  3 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1835.
  2. Robert Folkestone Williams.  Shakspeare and his Friends.  3 vol.  London: Henry Colburn, 1838.
  3. Robert Folkestone Williams.  The Youth of Shakspeare.  3 vol.  London: Henry Colburn, 1839.
  4. Amelia Lane.  The Fortress: An Historical Tale of the Fifteenth Century.  3 vol.  London: Edward Bull, 1840.
  5. John Richard Digby Beste.  The Pope: A Novel.  3 vol.  London: Saunders and Otley, 1840.
  6. Robert Shelton Mackenzie.  Titian: A Romance of Venice.  3 vol.  London: Bentley, 1843.
  7. Barbara Hofland.  Hildebrand: or, The Days of Queen Elizabeth.  3 vol.  London: John Mortimer, 1844.
  8. Katharine Colquhoun.  Maurice, the Elector of Saxony: An Historical Romance of the Sixteenth Century.  3 vol.  London: T. C. Newby, 1844.
  9. Jane Louisa Willyams.  Chillon: or, Protestants of the Sixteenth Century. An Historical Tale.  2 vol.  London: Hatchard, 1845.
  10. Mrs. Ann Rolfe.  The Oath of Allegiance: A Tale of the Times of Philip the Second.  2 vol.  London: Saunders and Otley, 1847.
  11. Archibald Boyd.  The Duchess: or, Woman's Love and Woman's Hate.  3 vol.  London: Bentley, 1850.
  12. Joseph Sortain.  Count Arensberg: or, The Days of Martin Luther.  2 vol.  London: Longman, 1853.
  13. William Brewer.  Beatrice Sforza: or, The Progress of Truth.  3 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1863.
  14. William Harrison Ainsworth.  Cardinal Pole: or, The Days of Philip and Mary. An Historical Romance.  3 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1863.
  15. Cecilia Mary Caddell.  Wild Times: A Tale of the Days of Queen Elizabeth.  3 vol.  London: John Murray, 1865.
  16. Constance E. Plumptre.  Giordano Bruno: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century.  2 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1884.
  17. Walter Stanhope.  The Maid and the Monk: A Romantic Chronicle.  3 vol.  London: Sampson Low, 1887.
  18. Walter Raymond.  In the Smoke of War: A Story of Civil Strife.  1 vol.  Bristol: Arrowsmith, 1895.
  19. M. P. Shiel.  Cold Steel.  1 vol.  London: Grant Richards, 1899.

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