Novels of the Seventeenth Century. For news on the latest reviews, author interviews and additions to this website, see the blog. Novels with seventeenth- century settings outside Europe and North America (Africa, Asia, Australia and the Middle East) will be grouped in separate pages, by continent, when posted. Review. Mary Ellen Barnes, Peregrine (2. Charles I, Cromwell's Protectorate, and the settlement of the New World. Robert Hugh Benson, Oddsfish! Review or Author Interview. Paula Brackston, Return of the Witch (2. The Witch’s Daughter. Brown, Accidents of Providence (2. London accused of killing her child under a new law passed after Cromwell takes over the government. Davies, Gentleman Captain (2. Scotland in the time of King Charles II. Review or Author Interview. Lindsey Davis, A Cruel Fate (2. Royalists during the English Civil War and mistreated by a cruel jailer, who dream of escaping; a . Review. Susan Donnell, Pocahontas, a romantic novel about Pocahontas which portrays her and John Smith as lovers. Review. Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek (1. King Charles II and goes to stay on his Cornish estate, where she encounters a dashing French pirate. Review. Rose Earhart, Dorcas Good: The Diary of a Salem Witch (1.
Salem witch trials. Gerson, Port Royal (1. English adventurer in 1. Did Robert Kennedy's Love/Sex Affair with Jackie cause him to be SILENT on JFK assassination? The Solar-Cooler is the world’s first Portable, Solar-Powered Refrigeration Cooler. Plug into the sun, and keep your food and drinks cool. The church has a lot of 'answers' about divorce and remarriage, but still many people feel like they don't have God's answer. After doing the research for this report. English authority in colonial Jamaica. Hart, A Silver Bullet, set during the first Jacobite rebellion in 1. Scotland; self- published. Humphreys, Plague (2. King Charles II, amid a plague epidemic. Review at the Vancouver Sun. Marci Jefferson, Girl on the Golden Coin (2. Visitors to this site often contact us when they can't remember the title of a period drama that they have seen. Below are the descriptions and. Frances Stuart, a beautiful Royalist exile who returns to England, where she is under pressure to become the mistress of King Charles II. Review. Kathryn Johnson, The Gentleman Poet (2. Shakespeare's The Tempest in which a servant girl is shipwrecked in Bermuda in 1. Jamestown Colony and falls in love with a cook, encouraged by a mysterious playwright. Letemendia, The Licence of War (2. Secretary of State of King Charles I and track down one of Parliament's spies; sequel to The Best of Men. Review. Katharine Mc. Mahon, After Mary (2. English Catholic family who becomes involved with Mary Ward's pioneering effort to form an uncloistered order of nuns similar to the Jesuit Order. Review. Fiona Mountain, Cavalier Queen (2. Henrietta Maria, the French princess who married King Charles I. Review. Diana Norman, The Vizard Mask, about two women who use their wits to escape debtors' prison and become involved in intrigues in the Restoration court of Charles II. Review. Robert Nye, Mrs. Shakespeare: The Complete Works (1. Shakespeare's wife. Shakespeare (1. 99. Shakespeare's troupe (all were male) who specialized in women's roles. Review of the series at the Rough Edges blog. Donald Clayton Porter, The Renegade (1. Seneca warrior whose tribe sends him to London to present a case against the French and Huron Indians, who have been menacing the Seneca and the American colonists; #2 in the White Indian series; Donald Clayton Porter is a pen name of Noel B. Clair Robson, Mary's Land, set in seventeenth century Colonial Maryland. Review. Susan Holloway Scott, The Countess and the King (2. Katherine Sedley, the mistress of England's King James II. Review and Author Interview. Susan Holloway Scott, The King's Favorite (2. Nell Gwynn, who rose from poverty as an actress and become the mistress of King Charles II while still in her teens. Review. Mary Lee Settle, I, Roger Williams, about the man who was secretary to the English jurist Sir Edward Coke and founded Rhode Island, working for the separation of church and state; #1 in the Beulah Quartet (third in the quartet to be published). Review or Author Interview. Danielle Sosin, The Long- Shining Waters (2. America's Lake Superior in 1. Review or Author Interview. Deborah Swift, The Gilded Lily (2. London with her sister in 1. Review. Mark Turnbull, Decision Most Deadly (2. Crown or Parliament, with England on the brink of civil war; self- published. Vollmann, Fathers and Crows, about conflicts between European colonists and Native North Americans; #2 in the Seven Dreams series (see the Medieval Viking section for #1, The Ice Shirt). Vollmann, The Rifles, about conflicts between European colonists and Native North Americans; #6 in the Seven Dreams series (published out of chronological order). Vollmann, Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, about conflicts between European colonists and Native North Americans; #3 in the Seven Dreams series (published out of chronological order). Review. Suzy Witten, The Afflicted Girls (2. Salem witch trials. Review. Ronan Bennett, Havoc in its Third Year (2. Yorkshire amid the English Civil War who questions the guilt of an Irishwoman his Puritan fellow- governors believe to have murdered her baby. Deas, The Royalist (2. Cromwell's army. Review. Mary Lawrence, The Alchemist's Daughter (2. Bianca Goddard mystery series. Review at The Independent. S. G. Mac. Lean, The Redemption of Alexander Seaton (2. Scottish academic who must clear his friend of a murder charger after an apothecary's assistant dies; #2 in the Alexander Seaton mystery series. Mac. Lean, Crucible of Secrets (2. Scottish academic who investigates the death of a friend, his university's librarian, in 1. Aberdeen; #3 in the Alexander Seaton mystery series. Mac. Lean, The Devil's Recruit (2. Scottish academic who investigates the death of a young woman whose body is found frozen in a prominent Aberdeen citizen's garden, while the Thirty Years' War rages on the Continent; #4 in the Alexander Seaton mystery series. Mac. Lean, The Seeker (2. Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell and his efforts to track down the killer of a heroic soldier in Cromwell's army. Review. Christi Phillips, The Devlin Diary (2. Cambridge Fellow and a historian find clues to the murder of a professor in an unsolved case of serial killings in the court of Charles II in 1. Claire Donovan series in which a modern young woman solves mysteries connected with historical events in various times and places. Paul's Cathedral after the Great Fire of London. Tyler, A Cruel Necessity (2. Royalist spy in 1. Cromwell's England; #1 in the John Grey mystery series. Tyler, A Masterpiece of Corruption (2. Cromwell's London who responds to a letter that involves him in an assassination plot, and tries to protect himself by informing on the conspirators; #2 in the John Grey mystery series. Berridge, Honour and the Sword (2. French nobleman who must defend the people on his estate when the Thirty Years' War spills into his lands. Berridge, In the Name of the King (2. French nobleman who attracts the enmity of a gang of treasonous conspirators during the Thirty Years' War; sequel to Honour and the Sword. Review. Joseph Boyden, The Orenda (2. French Jesuit on a mission in North America who becomes a captive of the Huron Indians. Review. Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring, about a servant girl who works for the artist Vermeer in seventeenth- century Holland. See more novels about artists. Andrei Codrescu, The Blood Countess, about Elizabeth Bathory, a seventeenth- century Hungarian countess who murdered young women to bathe in their blood. Costain, High Towers, about a boy and girl in French Montreal who fall in love when they are young and later settle in New Orleans. Denton, A House Near Luccoli (2. Genoa who becomes friends with the musician Alessandro Stradella as he attempts to revive his career after a scandal. Duggan, III, Silver's Odyssey (2. Spanish soldier shipwrecked on the Atocha galleon of 1. Florida's southern coast to St. Augustine; self- published. Fogtdal, The Tsar's Dwarf (2. Danish, first English edition 2. Copenhagen who is given to Peter the Great as a gift from the Danish king. See more novels about artists. Sandra Gulland, Mistress of the Sun (2. Louise de la Valliere, the remarkable horsewoman who became the first mistress of King Louis XIV of France. Review. Sandra Gulland, The Shadow Queen (2. Claude des Oeillets, an actress who became a companion to Louis XIV's mistress Ath. Review or Author Interview. Joanne Harris, Holy Fools (2. Breton convent, only to be confronted with a sinister figure out of her past after the abbess dies and is replaced. See more novels about artists. Deborah Moggach, Tulip Fever, about a Dutch painter in seventeenth century Amsterdam. See more novels about artists. Donna Russo Morin, The Secret of the Glass (2. Venetian Island of Murano who is secretly learning the art of glassmaking, forbidden to women. Review. Donna Russo Morin, The Courtier's Secret (2. Louis XIV, sometimes as a woman and sometimes disguised as a swordsman who fights alongside a pair of musketeers. See article on Historical Novels about Artists. Pick, The Last Valley (1. Thirty Years War who happens across a village untouched by its ravages and, when soldiers from an opposing army coverge on the village, strikes a bargain with them to remain in the village over the winter; a 1. Michael Caine and Omar Sharif was based on this novel. Review. Henryk Sienkiewicz, The Deluge (1. Polish knights during a war between Poland and Sweden; #2 in the Polish trilogy. Review. Greta van der Rol, Die A Dry Death (2. Amsterdam merchant ship wrecked on a reef off the Australian coast, and the brutal tyrant who lords it over the survivors. White, The Seventh Etching (2. Amsterdam who holds the clue to a missing etching and is later painted by Rembrandt; self- published. Review. Arturo Perez- Reverte, Captain Alatriste (1. Spanish; 2. 00. 5 in English), a literary swashbuckler about a Spanish swordsman hired by a mysterious stranger to ambush a pair of traveling Englishmen; #1 in the Captain Alatriste series. Review at The Guardian. Christi Phillips, The Rossetti Letter (2.
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