Home›Historical Fiction and Romance›Original Language›EnglishBrowse ByEnglishOriginal language names the language a literary work was first written in, before any translation. Pride and Prejudice, a novel "by English author Jane Austen," was written and first published in English. This dimension groups works that a visitor could read in their original form using the same language.FactsEnglishSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1800 1EnglishFilter Results32 entriesGenreAllAdventure Fiction (1)Chivalric Romance (2)Gothic Fiction (1)Historical Fantasy (1)Historical Fiction (14)Romance (3)Ruritanian Romance (1)Sword and Sorcery (1)The Novel (15)Tragedy (1)Young Adult Fiction (1)AuthorAllAlex Haley (1)Anna Lee Waldo (1)Anthony Hope (1)Arundhati Roy (1)Bernard Malamud (1)Charles Dickens (1)Colleen McCullough (1)Dustin Thao (1)Emily Brontë (1)Gustave Flaubert (1)Helen Dale (1)Hilary Mantel (1)James Clavell (1)James Fenimore Cooper (1)Jamie McGuire (1)Jane Austen (1)Jean Rhys (1)John Lyly (1)John Rollin Ridge (1)Lew Wallace (1)Linda Grant (1)M. L. Stedman (1)Margaret Mitchell (1)Nathaniel Hawthorne (1)Rafael Sabatini (1)Robert Graves (1)Sigrid Undset (1)Susan Sontag (1)Thomas Malory (1)Wallace Stegner (1)Walter Scott (2)Composition YearAll1485 (1)1578 (1)1796 (1)1813 (1)1817 (1)1819 (1)1824 (1)1826 (1)1847 (1)1850 (1)1854 (1)1859 (1)1862 (1)1880 (1)1894 (1)1920 (1)1922 (1)1934 (1)1936 (1)1966 (2)1971 (1)1975 (1)1976 (1)1978 (1)1987 (1)1994 (1)1997 (1)1999 (1)2000 (1)2009 (1)2011 (1)2012 (1)2021 (1)Country of OriginAllAustralia (2)Australia (1)England (1)France (1)India (1)Kingdom of England (1)Norway (1)United Kingdom (11)United States (11)AudienceAllAdult (1)Children's (6)General (24)Young Adult (1)AwardAllBancarella Literary Prize (1)Booker Prize (2)Indie Book Award (Book of the Year) (1)Indie Book Award (Debut Fiction) (1)James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1)Miles Franklin Award (1)National Book Award for Fiction (1)Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (3)Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards (1)WH Smith Literary Award (1)Women's Prize for Fiction (1)Setting Country or PlaceAllAustralia (1)Carthage (1)England (1)Jamaica (1)London (1)Massachusetts (1)Paris (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 32A Tale of Two CitiesEnglishAngle of ReposeEnglishBeautiful DisasterEnglishBen-Hur: A Tale of the ChristEnglishCaptain BloodEnglishEuphues: The Anatomy of WitEnglishGone with the WindEnglishI, ClaudiusEnglishIn AmericaEnglishIvanhoeEnglishKristin LavransdatterEnglishLe Morte d'ArthurEnglishPride and PrejudiceEnglishRob RoyEnglishRoots: The Saga of an American FamilyEnglishSacajaweaEnglishSalammboEnglishShogunEnglishThe FixerEnglishThe God of Small ThingsEnglishThe Hand That Signed the PaperEnglishThe Ladies of MissalonghiEnglishThe Last of the MohicansEnglishThe Life and Adventures of Joaquín MurietaEnglishThe Light Between OceansEnglishThe Prisoner of ZendaEnglishThe Scarlet LetterEnglishWhen I Lived in Modern TimesEnglishWide Sargasso SeaEnglishWolf HallEnglishWuthering HeightsEnglishYou've Reached SamEnglishSources1. Historical fiction (Wikipedia)Historical fiction, lead section, early-19th-century foundations sentenceQuote, Historical fiction, lead section, early-19th-century foundations sentenceHistorical fiction as a contemporary Western literary genre has its foundations in the early-19th-century works of Sir Walter Scott and his contemporaries in other national literatures such as the Frenchman Honore de Balzac, the American James Fenimore Cooper, and later the Russian Leo Tolstoy.Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.