He began by an historical novel of no great merit, but the revolution of 1830 served as the occasion of his Iambes, a series of extraordinarily brilliant and vigorous satires, both political and social.
WITH FIRE AND SWORD An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia.
Up to this point George Eliot had confined herself to English country life, but now she suddenly abandoned the scenes and the people with whom she was most familiar in order to write an historical novel.
Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," while in one sense a historical novel, is an incomparable study of the human soul under the weight of guilt and remorse.
The historical novel is devoted to the description of life in the past.
The Milesian Chief is a historical novel, and is now chiefly remembered on account of the likeness of the opening chapters to Scott's Bride of Lammermoor (1819).
It may have been the publication of The Recess by Sophia Lee in 1785 that inspired Mrs. Radcliffe to try her fortune with a historical novel.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "historical novel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
