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Rochellaine replied to the topic For All The Historical Fictioners in the forum General Writing Discussions 7 years ago
I was gone too long again. I feel like I missed so much! First of all, hello @lin! 😀 Welcome! That’s a very interesting selection of time periods/places you like! Have you read the Viking Quest series by Lois Walfrid Johnson? And how old are you? (If you’re willing to say.)
I see the confusion about @valtmy was resolved, but I’m here to back her up anyway, saying that however much I insist on historical accuracy most of the time, I also adore parodies. And parodies need not be historically accurate as long as they are aware they are historically inaccurate. 😉
@selah-chelyah @ashira @northerner I’ve always thought Henty’s books were pretty historically accurate. He was, after all, a correspondent journalist who was on-site at many of the battles he wrote about, and for those he wasn’t, well, I presume that as a journalist he would have held himself to a pretty high research standard. However, if anyone has historical inaccuracies in Henty’s books they’ve noted and would like to point out I’d love to hear about them!










