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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. The second of our guest blog posts by independent publisher Slightly Foxed is about a biography of the real Mrs Miniver, Jan Struther. Written by her granddaughter Ysenda Maxtone Graham and shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography […]
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Writers seeking a sense of historical authenticity in their work have to consider both style and content. At the height of the popularity of historical fiction after the Second World War, writers such as Josephine Tey and Anya Seton, combined narrative dialogue and period detail in a manner which by the 1960s had fallen out of fashion. Peter Ackroyd and Hilary Mantel, two contemporary writers whose work aims to recreate a sense of time and place, aim to achieve this in rather different ways.
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