Maiden Castle (novel) Maiden Castle (novel) Maiden Castle by John Cowper Powys was first published in 1936 and is the last of Powys so-called Wessex novels, following "Wolf Solent" (1929), "A Glastonbury Romance" (1932), "Weymouth Sands" (1934). Powys was an admirer of Thomas Hardy, and these novels are set in Somerset and Dorset, part of Hardy's mythical Wessex. American scholar Richard Maxwell describes these four novels "as remarkably successful with the reading public of his time". "Maiden Castle" is set in Dorchester, Dorset Thomas Hardy's Casterbridge, and which Powys intended to be a "rival" to Hardy's "Mayor of Casterbridge". Glen Cavaliero describes Dorchester
Historical novels by Nigel Tranter set after 1603 his death in 1650. 1650-1654 1680-7? 1678–1707 Andrew Fletcher MacGregor's Gathering (1957) 1706–1708 The central character is Glun Dubh, a nephew of Rob Roy MacGregor, although Rob Roy himself plays an important role. It covers events around the Union of Parliaments in 1707 and the abortive Jacobite invasion of 1708. The Clansman (1959) 1711–1716 Gold for Prince Charlie (1972) 1743–1746 Collin Joseph MacGregor Historical novels by Nigel Tranter set after 1603 Nigel Tranter is a Scottish author who wrote many novels based on actual historical events and characters. This page includes those of his historical novels set in Scotland after