The Woman’s Historical Novel

1. Introduction
Diana Wallace

2. Entering into History: The Woman Citizen and the Historical Novel, 1900–1929
Diana Wallace

3. Histories of the Defeated: Writers Taking Sides in the 1930s
Diana Wallace

4. Writing the War and After: Wicked Ladies and Wayward Women in the 1940s
Diana Wallace

5. Hollow Men and Homosexual Heroes: Exploring Masculinity in the 1950s
Diana Wallace

6. The Return of the Repressed: Maternal Histories in the 1960s
Diana Wallace

7. Selling Women’s History: Popular Historical Fiction in the 1970s
Diana Wallace

8. ‘Herstory’ to Postmodern Histories: History as Dissent in the 1980s
Diana Wallace

9. Dialogues with the Dead: History and the ‘Sense of an Ending’, 1990–2000
Diana Wallace

10. Postscript
Diana Wallace

Nyckelord: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Gender Studies, Fiction