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Index Aborigine, 190 1, 197 8, 203 academia, representation of, 182 academic, representation of, 165, 171, 175, 178, 182 adaptation, 5, 6, 7, 18, 122 advance retrospection, 108 9 agency, 2, 3, 9 10, 11, 120, 143, 144, 153, 163 Anne of the Thousand Days, 85, 87 artist, 23, 28, 30, 31, 33, 36, 43, 51, 55, 62, 134, 172, 225, 228, 232 Ashbee, Henry Spencer, 123 Atwood, Margaret, 4, 5, 12, 13, 15, 60 73, 192 Australia, 15, 189 203 autobiography, 45, 47, 62 4, 67 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 65, 70, 74 Bell, Vanessa, 16, 17, 51, 53, 223 5, 228 9, 234 biography, 4, 16, 19, 28, 34, 41 9, 54, 55, 189, 192, 228, 229, 235 Boleyn, Mary, 81 3 book covers, 43, 48, 95, 96 102, 124, 140 Burton, Richard, 123, 124 5 Byatt, A. S., 12, 17, 171, 172, 173 4, 175, 177, 178 9, 181 2, 184 5, 207, 210, 225 Canada, 60 1 Cannibal Club, The, 123, 125 Carter, Angela, 120 Cixous, Hélène, 14, 235 classical historical novel, 210, 217 colonialism, 15 16, 124 5, 172, 174, 179, 190 1, 194 5, 197 203 concert, 25, 27, 29, 30, 33 confession, 28, 62 3, 70 Cookson, Catherine, 9 cross-writing, 15 daughters, 25 9, 32 3, 81, 83, 84 6, 128, 163 5, 167, 176, 178 9, 194, 213, 214 5, 217, 224, 234 dialogic, 63 diary, 12 13, 28 9, 33, 38, 60, 62 73, 134, 145 domestic, 81, 87, 194, 209 fiction, 2, 7 spaces, 26, 107 8, 158 60, 166 work, 31, 33 Donoghue, Emma, 12, 15, 134 50 Dunmore, Helen, 224 dreams, 50, 65, 66, 67 72, 156, 175, 223 écriture féminine, 14 15 Edgeworth, Maria, 2 Elam, Diane, 5, 8, 172, 178, 181, 184, 185 escapism, 2, 10 11, 16 17, 174, 207 ethics, 24, 34 5, 177, 191, 203, 224 fairytale, 12, 86, 175 7 fantasy, 2, 11, 95, 101, 108, 191, 194, 198 feeling backwards, 135 7, 140, 142, 144 5 see also reverse discourse feminism, 1, 3, 4, 10, 13 18, 24, 116, 120 9, 135, 137 8, 142, 147, 148, 149, 153 4, 157, 161, 164 6, 172, 173, 176, 179, 184 5, 197, 234 and pornography, 9, 115, 116, 118, 119, 122 5, 127 postfeminism, 9, 154, 167 and sexuality, 9, 116, 121, 135, 138, 142, 147, 149 third-wave, 154, 158, 160, 163, 164 7 238
Index 239 Foucault, Michel, 136, 142 3, 144, 146 7 The History of Sexuality, 136 Freud, Sigmund, 69, 214, 224 gender, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 17, 23, 25 7, 95 6, 104, 110, 115 16, 121, 122 3, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 147, 157, 161, 165, 166, 172, 173, 175, 178, 183, 185, 191, 193 4, 201, 203, 223, 233 4 and authorship, 41 3, 48 9, 52 6 and genre, 12, 17, 190, 191, 193 5, 197 203, 206 18 of history, 8, 208 10 identities, 7, 184 politics, 1, 9, 10, 13, 18, 23, 117, 154, 159, 190, 191, 193 4, 197 relations, 17, 96, 108 9, 110, 116, 117, 128, 161, 162, 165, 166, 202 roles, 97, 104, 107 8, 109 10, 121, 158 Godwin, William, 208, 209 gothic, 10, 12, 13, 97, 153 67, 213, 217, 222 female gothic, 10, 12, 13, 153 4, 158, 160 7, 213 novel, 12, 13, 159, 165 Greek mythology, 74, 172, 176, 214 Grenville, Kate, 12, 15, 17, 189 203 Gregory, Philippa, 1, 3, 6, 13, 81 3, 206, 271 8 The Other Boleyn Girl, 3, 6, 18, 81 3, 218 guilt, 11, 31, 60, 63, 67, 69, 73, 89, 145, 215 her-story, 172 Hever Castle, 81 2 Heyer, Georgette, 9, 96, 206, 207, 210 historian, representation of the, 62, 157, 180, 183, 194 historiographic metafiction, 173, 181, 210, 213, 216 historical accuracy, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12 13, 16, 45 6, 61, 89, 173, 178, 189, 192 4, 203, 225 6 historical romance, 2, 8 9, 11 12, 13, 30, 86, 95 113, 185, 208, 211 history continuities, 207, 208, 210, 212, 213, 216 discontinuities, 208, 210, 213, 215 female figure in, 1 18 of the novel, 2 patriarchal accounts of, 5, 8, 12, 14, 135, 147 8, 172, 216, 217 proper history, 207, 208 9, 214, 217 women s, 3, 12, 13, 18, 23 4, 108, 172, 176, 185 Hutcheon, Linda, 173, 181, 184 homosexuality, 9, 11 12, 13, 97, 117, 119, 120 2, 134 50 homophobia, 135, 136, 137, 139, 141 8 innocence, 60, 63, 67, 73, 83, 117 18, 140, 157, 158, 165, 195 intertextuality, 62, 65, 171, 173 4, 175 7, 181, 183 intervention, 3 4, 13 15, 17, 154, 162, 166, 171, 172, 181 5, 190, 202 Irigaray, Luce, 214 16, Irwin, Margaret, 79, 84, 85, 88, 207 Young Bess, 79, 84, 85, 87, 207 James, Henry, 226, 230 King Henry VIII, 76, 77, 80, 81 2, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87 9, 209 Lee, Sophia, 213 15, 216 18 Lee, Vernon, 213 14, 215, 217 lesbian, 12, 13, 54, 117, 119, 121, 134 50 in fiction, 135, 148, 210 in history, 134, 135 7, 138, 140, 147 and the male gaze, 121 2 and sexual agency, 120 1, 145 7 Litzmann, Berthold, 28 London Anthropological Society, 123 Love, Heather, 135 6, 140, 144, 145 Lukács, Georg, 206, 210, 216 madness, 54 6 see also mental illness Mantel, Hilary, 15, 79 80, 88, 206, 217, 225
240 Index maternal, 83, 85, 87, 163 5, 178, 214, 215, 217 see also daughters and mothers matrilineal genealogies, 214 16 du Maurier, Daphne, 222, 223, 231 medieval, 9, 10, 76, 95 113, 180, 225 medievalism, 102 memory, 25, 65, 67, 69 71, 72, 84, 103, 172, 229 mental illness, 4, 23, 31, 41, 49, 52, depression, 17, 42, 52, 55, 234 metafiction, 1, 4, 52, 67, 175, 178 9, 181 2 Middle Ages, 95, 96, 102, 103, 104, 106, 109 Mills & Boon, 9, 10, 11, 17, 95 113, 209 modernist, 41, 48, 65 modernity, 102, 109, 110, 115, 210 Moers, Ellen, 153, 167 Moodie, Susanna, 61 2, 66 8, 71 2 Mosse, Kate, 1, 10, 12, 13, 153 67 mothers, 25, 45, 81, 83, 84 5, 86 7, 117, 128, 163 5, 176, 178, 194, 207, 214 17, 224, 228 motherhood, 33, 83, 104, 107, 137 morality, 35, 76, 103 4, 139, 193, 197, 198 9, 201, 203, 223, 235 murder, 51, 60 1, 67 70, 153, 159, 162, 163, 176, 214 5, 216, 223, 230 musicians, 24, 25, 26, 28, 35, 77, 84, 88, 233 mythology, 12, 161, 171, 172, 173, 176, 184, 214 16 neo-victorian, 19 fiction, 7, 12, 115, 119, 126, 127, 129, 210, 217 sexsation, 12, 115, 116, 119, 126, 129 objectification of women, 122, 124, 141 ownership, 28, 78, 200 pastiche, 8, 62, 182, 222 patriarchy, 153, 154, 158, 162 perception (of women), 48, 55, 60, 119, 211 pharos, 16, 222, 227, 131, 234 Pizzichini, Lilian, 41 3, 42 9 Plaidy, Jean, Murder Most Royal, 81, 86, 206, 207 Plath, Sylvia, 4, 41 3, 49 56 pornography female writers of, 11, 115, 120, 121, 122, 128, 129 and feminism, 9, 115, 116, 118, 119, 122 5, 127 and sexuality, 119, 120, 123 4 Porter, Jane, 216 postmodern, 4 6, 8, 13, 61, 63, 66, 73, 116, 172, 174, 182 postcolonialism, 183, 194, 212 postmodernism, 1, 8, 19 Queen Anne Boleyn execution, 76, 84 as highly sexual, 77, 78 imprisonment, 77 and motherhood, 79, 82 7 as Protestant heroine, 80, 86 as role model for writers, 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 79, 83, 84 speech from scaffold, 76, 88, 89 Queen Elizabeth I, 79, 83 4, 85, 86 6, 214 15 Queen Katherine of Aragon, 83, 86 Queen Mary Tudor, 79, 86 queer histories, 11, 12, 135, 136 rape, 104, 105, 106, 124 reading politics of, 6, 48, 88, 173, 185, 191, 206, 207, 211 secret, 207 Regency, 96, 101, 136 Reich, Nancy, 23 8, 30, 31, 32, 33 research and historical fiction, 46, 62, 192, 194, 195, 196, 198, 210, 223 8, 232 3 revisionary fiction, 5, 24, 135 reverse discourse, 136 7, 143, 144, 147 see also, feeling backwards Rhys, Jean, 4, 41, 42 9, 56, 183 Rich, Adrienne, 135, 137, 140 Romanticism (art), 25, 26, 102
Index 241 romance, 2, 8, 11, 12, 13, 95 6, 102, 103, 104, 108 10, 174, 185, 208, 211 Sapphism, 134, 141, 143 Schumann, Clara, 1, 3, 4, 5, 23 35, 28 36 Schumann, Robert, 23, 25, 29, 30, 31, 32, 35 science (history as), 125, 193, 194, 199 Scott, Sir Walter, 2, 3, 16, 206, 210, 211, 216 Sellers, Susan Vanessa and Virginia, 16, 17, 42, 49, 51 3, 223 5, 228 9, 232 3 sexuality, 1, 9, 10 13, 18, 83, 95, 96, 104, 106, 109, 110, 111, 115, 117, 119, 120, 121, 123, 129, 134, 136, 139, 142 history of, 3, 7, 13, 138 repressed/hidden, 9, 11, 121, 122, 144, 145, 147 as subversion, 119, 120, 142 sexual violence, 105, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111 Shakespeare, William, 31, 172, 173, 183, 225 Starkey, David, 206, 209 Starling, Belinda The Journal of Dora Damage, 9, 115, 116, 122 129 suicide, 42, 50, 51, 52, 55, 163 supernatural, 84, 153, 156, 157, 161, 162, 163, 166 Swynford, Katherine, 83 teaching historical fiction, 206, 210 12 temporal distance, 7, 10, 102, 103, 108 10 transgressive, 155, 157, 160, 165 6 unreliable narrator, 61, 62, 197 Victorian, 7, 29, 61, 171, 181, 184, 211, 222 and feminism, 115, 123 lesbian, 12, 121, 122 and the literary marketplace, 7, 9, 19, 122, 129 and pornography, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122, 123, 124 5, 126, 128 sexuality, 7, 9, 12, 115, 122 sexualization of culture, 9, 12, 115, 122, 129 women s objectification in, 123, 129 virtuosa, 25, 32 voice, 5, 15, 24, 25, 28, 30, 44, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71 3, 79, 82, 102, 108, 110, 122, 139, 145, 153, 155, 175, 177, 179, 182, 184, 190, 195, 201, 202, 203, 232 Warner, Marina, 12, 171, 172, 173, 174 7, 179, 181, 183, 184, 185 Waters, Sarah, 1, 3, 12, 13, 18, 124, 125, 126, 128, 129, 206, 210, 211 Fingersmith, 9, 12, 18, 115, 116, 120 4 wife, 23, 25, 31, 32, 54, 76, 79, 86, 88, 103, 107, 108, 122, 126, 142, 194, 201, 216, 223, 234 writing historical fiction, 3, 4, 14, 16, 34, 35, 68, 84, 88, 110, 147, 165, 177, 189, 190, 192, 193, 195, 199, 203, 207, 208 process of, 1, 7, 13, 14, 47, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 72, 177, 188, 192, 196, 197, 199, 222, 225 8, 229 31, 233 women s, 1, 2, 10, 14, 15, 41, 42, 43, 47, 48, 52, 53, 55, 56, 61, 64, 121, 126, 129, 140, 145, 146, 147, 165, 174, 189, 193, 195 6, 210 Wollstonecraft, Mary, 138 Woolf, Virginia, 4, 16, 17, 41, 42, 43, 49 55, 56, 86, 223, 228, 232, 234, 235 World War One, 173, 174, 223, 227 Yonge, Charlotte M., 216, 217