No, that has also eluded me also. I mostly read genre, and I think the authors there would be more likely to shy away from having protagonists with true-to-the-time beliefs.
Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris is probably the closest, but it's quite bleak, gruesome in places, and a lot of it is two puritans locked in an attic. So while it's not a bad novel, I don't feel I can personally recommend it for its entertainment value.
A Skinful of Shadows by Francis Hardinge is a children's novel set during the ECW. The enemies are literal rather than just metaphorical parasitical vampires, so obviously not out to win in the realism competition. On the other hand, it's a lot more enjoyable than the above, and in terms of style Hardinge is miles ahead of Harris.
I've never read Rebels and Traitors by Lindsey Davies but want to, though I fully expect the protagonists to be rather modern in outlook. The Rider of the White Horse by Rosemary Sutcliff, which I read more than twenty years ago, I recall as being largely set around Nun Appleton House and concerned with the relationship of Thomas and Anne Fairfax. I wasn't of an age to be able to easily spot anachronisms in attitudes. If there were, I suspect it would have bled through from Sutcliff's own background as the daughter of a British officer from that social milieu and the literature that she grew up with.
Sorry for hijacking a Doctor Who post with Civil War stuff, vivdunstan. Trying to tie the two together, it looks as if the show did visit the era, but not during the time I've been watching it (during New Who). Time to return, surely!
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Date: 2025-01-21 07:07 am (UTC)Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris is probably the closest, but it's quite bleak, gruesome in places, and a lot of it is two puritans locked in an attic. So while it's not a bad novel, I don't feel I can personally recommend it for its entertainment value.
A Skinful of Shadows by Francis Hardinge is a children's novel set during the ECW. The enemies are literal rather than just metaphorical parasitical vampires, so obviously not out to win in the realism competition. On the other hand, it's a lot more enjoyable than the above, and in terms of style Hardinge is miles ahead of Harris.
I've never read Rebels and Traitors by Lindsey Davies but want to, though I fully expect the protagonists to be rather modern in outlook. The Rider of the White Horse by Rosemary Sutcliff, which I read more than twenty years ago, I recall as being largely set around Nun Appleton House and concerned with the relationship of Thomas and Anne Fairfax. I wasn't of an age to be able to easily spot anachronisms in attitudes. If there were, I suspect it would have bled through from Sutcliff's own background as the daughter of a British officer from that social milieu and the literature that she grew up with.
Sorry for hijacking a Doctor Who post with Civil War stuff,