oggbashan
Dying Truth seeker
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My historical works are:
Harold in India - I felt it necessary to explain that the 'India' was that of the hero's imagination of what he thought 19th century India was like. That covered any anacronisms.
Gulliver in Brobdingnag and Lilliput - In those I pretended to write as Jonathan Swift. He was writing a political satire on the England of his day. My Gulliver's Travels were based on the original so research was easy.
As jeanne-d'artois I wrote 'Burghers' - an evocation of what *might* have happened when the burghers surrendered Calais to the English. My research was my general knowledge and a long study of Rodin's statue of the Burghers outside Calais Hotel de Ville and the maquettes of Rodin's various alternative versions housed in the Museum of Fine Art and Lace.
Og
Harold in India - I felt it necessary to explain that the 'India' was that of the hero's imagination of what he thought 19th century India was like. That covered any anacronisms.
Gulliver in Brobdingnag and Lilliput - In those I pretended to write as Jonathan Swift. He was writing a political satire on the England of his day. My Gulliver's Travels were based on the original so research was easy.
As jeanne-d'artois I wrote 'Burghers' - an evocation of what *might* have happened when the burghers surrendered Calais to the English. My research was my general knowledge and a long study of Rodin's statue of the Burghers outside Calais Hotel de Ville and the maquettes of Rodin's various alternative versions housed in the Museum of Fine Art and Lace.
Og
