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Originally Posted by sportourer1
How do people feel about historical accuracy within fiction? Is it vital or can we become to intense and lose the thrill of writing anf reading fiction?
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As accurate as possible. All you need is a wrong detail and you immediately lose an informed reader. Imagine a novel set in Regency London where people drove cars and used mobile phones. Some of the details I've seen are just as impossible, if not quite as obvious.
It can be a bit of a problem fitting in the thinking of the time so modern readers can identify with it, but it's part of the fun.
I'm reading a novel set in 1785 Ireland, where the married hero asks the heroine to be his "partner". She gets pregnant, and continues to live with her well-born foster parents, be received in public, and his family are all delighted about it. Yeah, that would happen.