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Originally Posted by Victoria
Me too, and now I wonder if I’ve taken Tey all wrong? Making up your sources is a hanging offence in most contexts. But it’s perfectly legit in fiction. Maybe she just thought it would be fun topic for an novel, and was pretty casual about the research. She could be looking down highly amused to see people treat the novel like an academic paper.  |
Ah, the joke's on us, perhaps. It is one reason why I'm not a big fan of fictionalised stuff like this - and like the Philippa Gregory book I'm reading now - unless you're an expert in the field you don't know where the author parted ways with reality.
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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
[...] Perhaps she had an attraction to the subject of people she believed history had not represented fairly. Wikipedia says:
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That's an interesting thought. And whatever we might make of the story now, it certainly proved an effective way of getting her point across when she published it. That is one of the advantages that fiction has over non-fiction: when it works it can reach a lot more people.