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damned_colonial ([personal profile] damned_colonial) wrote in [community profile] readingthepast 2009-05-31 05:26 am (UTC)

I found some just by digging around a little... don't know if any are any good, though.

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1749
Major, Charles, 1856-1913
Title When Knighthood Was in Flower
or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1860
Creator Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875
Title Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22942
Holt, Emily Sarah, 1836-1893
Title Clare Avery
A Story of the Spanish Armada

I bet a good library search for fiction published before 1920 with the subject of Tudor England would turn some stuff up, too, which we could then hunt down on Gutenberg. I'm guessing there are heaps we'd say "oh, of course!" about, if someone mentioned them.

Incidentally, I bet Elizabethan seafaring (Francis Drake, Spanish Armada, etc) could be a theme in its own right.


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