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Originally Posted by Jellby
There's a famous series of 19th-century Spanish novels, Episodios Nacionales, which are also a prime example of historical fiction. The series is abouth 19th-century Spanish history too. It was started in 1872 (with 1805 events), and the final finished novel relates events in 1874-1880 (published in 1912). The author's lifetime was 1843-1920. Perhaps the "historical" tag is more obvious due to the series' character, but you see the dates overlap.
Anyway, whatever genre tag you apply here, I don't think it matters too much. |
It really only matters to the readers, not the submitters. You can use it as a search argument to find eBooks you are interested in reading and while scanning eBooks it can guide your selection. The perspective should always be for the readers. It matters not when the author wrote it. It matters a great deal when the reader fails to find it because it wasn't a genre they are particularly interested in. It is for this reason that historical should be from the perspective of us today, as apposed to modern.
Dale