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Historical Fiction - Renaissance Genre
Books in the Historical Fiction - Renaissance genre:
The Children of the New Forest (1930)
A family of Royalist children take to the woods to escape from their Puritan persecuters. A Robinsonnade in Merry England.
Author(s):
Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Flight of the Heron (1930)
Ewen Cameron is out with the ’45 and encounters a British officer Keith Windham who becomes his best friend.
Author(s):
D. K. Broster
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Witch’s Maiden: A Historical Romance (1930)
Temperance, her parents dead and she only seven years old, is dispossesed by Cromwell’s officers as a Royalist and sent to live with the neighboring witch.
Author(s):
Mabel L. Tyrrell
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
The Gleam in the North (1931)
Author(s):
D. K. Broster
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
The Dark Mile (1934)
The conclusion of the author’s Jacobite trilogy concerns the betrayers of Dr. Cameron and wraps up the remaining storylines, including a happy outcome for Ian.
Author(s):
D. K. Broster
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
The Female Felon (1935)
The adventures of a woman who casts her lot in with a pirate crew.
Author(s):
Helen Simpson
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Miranda is a Princess (1937)
Miranda is a princess of Catalonia. In this fantasy, the Catalonians send the army of Castile packing, thanks to the puppet master Papa ‘Tero.
Author(s):
Emma Gelders Sterne
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Barnaby Rudge (1941)
A tale of the anti-Catholic Gordon riots.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Adam of the Road (1942)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Janet Gray
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Adam of the Road (1943)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Janet Gray
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Beggar’s Penny (1943)
A story about the siege of Leyden in the sixteenth century.
Author(s):
Catherine Cate Coblentz
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Kidnapped (1948)
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Pilgrim Kate (1949)
A young woman in England decides to join the Puritans when they depart for Holland.
Author(s):
Helen Fern Daringer
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Shadow of the Hawk (1949)
Renaissance hero and heroine search for a book on Lake of Varna.
Author(s):
Geoffrey Trease
Illustrator(s):
Joe Krush
The Armourer’s House (1951)
When her grandmother dies, Tamsyn is sent to London. There, she meets a strange old Wise Woman.
Author(s):
Rosemary Sutcliff
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Redcap Runs Away (1952)
The story of a 10-year-old boy who takes up with a band of minstrels in the 14th century.
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Author(s):
Rhoda Power
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
The Children’s Hour Volume 12 (1953)
A collection of historical fiction.
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The Children of Green Knowe (1954)
Author(s):
L. M. Boston
Illustrator(s):
Peter Boston
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq (1956)
Orphaned Henry Esmond is brought up by his Jacobite relations, the Castlewoods.
Author(s):
William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Chimneys of Green Knowe (1958)
Author(s):
L. M. Boston
Illustrator(s):
Peter Boston
Magic in My Shoes (1958)
When Sally meets Josset Ormond at her aunt's home, she cannot determine whether he is a single boy or a set of triplets.
Author(s):
Constance Winifred Savery
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
A Traveler in Time (1964)
Author(s):
Alison Uttley
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The King's Beard (1965)
Sixteen year old John Forrester sails with Sir Francis Drake in his daring raid on Cadiz.
Author(s):
Leonard Wibberley
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Player’s Boy (1970)
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s):
John Holder
The Players and the Rebels (1971)
This is the second part of Antonia Forest’s historical romance of Shakespeare’s time.
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s):
John Holder