Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Favorite Historical Novelists

Here is a list of my top ten favorite historical novelists, as requested by a reader:

1) R.H. Benson
2)Mother Magdalen Taylor
3)Baroness Orczy
4) Anya Seton
5) Norah Lofts
6)Jean Plaidy
7)Thomas B. Costain
8)Daphne DuMaurier
9) Ford Madox Ford
10) Sir Walter Scott Share

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I absolutely love Eleanor Hibbert (aka Jean Plaidy)! It's wonderful to see some of her novels back in print again!

Dymphna said...

Jean Plaidy was my childhood favorite. I devoured her Plantagenant series and then the Catherine of Aragon Trilogy and the Queen Victoria books. After Jean Plaidy, I really loved Norah Lofts.

SuzanneG said...

Thanks, Elena! I have my summer reading list all ready!

Michelle Therese said...

WHAT?? No Jane Austin?? I'm mellllting...melllllting...

elena maria vidal said...

Ha, ha. Jane is in a class by herself. I would NEVER lump her in with other writers. And what Jane wrote, although it is historical to us, was contemporary to her, so I don't know if she would be considered a historical novelist. She is definitely one of my favorite authors, though!!