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Historical fiction, Australian

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• Australian fiction
• Historical fiction

• Australian historical fiction

• Old Tales of a Young Country (1871), by Marcus Clarke (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Francis Adams (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #24; 1996), by Meg Tasker (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)

• The Fiction Fields of Australia (original magazine version, 1856), by Frederick Sinnett (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)

• The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont, by Louis de Rougemont (Gutenberg text)

• The Mentor (Australian science fiction fanzine, and Watt's Out review supplement; 1991-2006), ed. by Ron Clarke (partial serial archives)

• Sir Walter Scott (c1932), by John Buchan (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper, Edited by His Grandson, James Fenimore Cooper (some printed issues as 2 volumes; New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922), by James Fenimore Cooper, ed. by James Fenimore Cooper, contrib. by Susan Fenimore Cooper
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales, by Jonathan Nield (Gutenberg text)
• History in Fiction: A Guide to the Best Historical Romances, Sagas, Novels, and Tales (2 volumes, ca. 1907), by Ernest A. Baker
  • Volume I (English fiction): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (American and foreign fiction): multiple formats at archive.org

• The Real, the True, and the Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Eric L. Berlatsky (PDF at Ohio State)
• Whose History? Engaging History Students Through Historical Fiction (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2013), by Grant Rodwell (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• The Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and His Successors (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1983), by Harry E. Shaw (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2004), by Margaret Reid (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1986), by Barbara Foley (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• History and Utopia: A Study of the World View of James Fenimore Cooper, by Allan M. Axelrad (HTML at James Fenimore Cooper Society)

• History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Victorian Afterimages (Palgrave Macmillan, c2010), by Kate Mitchell
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• Reinventing Liberty: Nation, Commerce and the British Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2016), by Fiona L. Price
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• The Lion and the Cross: Early Christianity in Victorian Novels (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Royal W. Rhodes (PDF at Ohio State)

• Whose History? Engaging History Students Through Historical Fiction (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2013), by Grant Rodwell (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Ring of Fire, ed. by Eric Flint (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
• Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates, by Howard Pyle, ed. by Merle Johnson (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Stories of the Old Missions of California, by Charles Franklin Carter (Gutenberg text)

• Plots and Characters in the Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper, by Warren S. Walker (HTML at James Fenimore Cooper Society)