John Cowper Powys 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", the last of the Wessex novels, is set in Dorchester, Thomas Hardy's Casterbridge, and which he intended to be a "rival" to Hardy's "Mayor of Casterbridge". All the same, despite his indebtedness to the Victorian novel and his enthusiasm for Hardy and Walter Scott, as well as for lesser figures such as Ainsworth, Powys was clearly a modernist, and has affinities also with Fyodor
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