Have you Read?

Overview and Issue

• Article on what a young Dorothy Dunnett might have read.
• WG133

Abstract

• Dunnett readers have heard that when she complained that she had run out of historical novels to read, her husband suggested that she write her own. The author looks back to the literary works available up to 1961 when Game of Kings was published. In addition to standard classics from Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, the author suggests Dunnett read works by RL Stevenson, Charles Reade, Alexander Dumas, Baroness Orczy, Zoé Oldenbourg and Sigrid Undset to name just a few. It is assumed that Dunnett's reading would works with both imaginative as well as strictly historical sources.

Author

• June Simpson

Dunnett Book References

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Historical People

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Fictional Characters

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Locations

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Literature

• Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
• The White Company, Arthur Conan Doyle
• Lorna Doone, RD Blackamore
• Kidnapped, Catriona and The Black Arrow, RL Stevenson
• The Cloister and the Hearth, Charles Reade
• The Dove in the Eagle's Nest, Charlotte Yonge
• The Last Days of Pompeii and The Last of the Barons, Bulwer Lytton
• The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
• Witch Wood and The Blanket of the Dark, John Buchan
• Towers in the Mist, Elizabeth Goudge
• The Gay Galliard, Margaret Irwin
• Sing Morning Star, Jane Oliver
• London Goes to Heaven, Jane Lane
• Katherine, Anya Seton
• The Bride's Tale and Beloved Lady, Margaret Trouncer
• Peter Abelard, Helen Waddell
• The Tournament, Peter Vansittart
• Crippled Splendour, Evan John
• Herésmédan, Jean Gamo
• Works by Georgette Heyer, Nora Lofts, Nigel Trantor and Henry Treece
• The Corn King and the Spring Queen, Naomi Mitchison
• Kristin Lavransdottir, Sigrid Undset
• The Bright Pavilions, Hugh Walpole
• Man on a Donkey, HFM Prescott
• The World is not Enough and The Cornerstone, Zoé Oldenbourg

Illustrations

• Etching by Daphne Lindner, 1934. Copyright Trustees of the British Museum.

Historical Events

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Other References

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Quotes from Dunnett

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