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New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 50, 17 December 1924, Page 8

Xlhe IRed (S,ueen BY ; E. M. WILMOT-BUXTON \ F.R.Hist.S. | 6/- | A novel dealing with the life of Queen Elizabeth, as ; seen from the point of view of one of her maids of honor, I in which almost every character is historical, and most of = the sayings attributed to the dramatis 'persona, are derived i from contemporary records, is a fictional experiment of an ! entirely new kind. - The phrase “historical novel” too often means nothing ; more than that the book to which the title is applied deals I with the more or less remote past. It is “historical” only > because it is not professedly contemporary. \ Miss Wilmot-Buxton thinks that actual historical per- I sons and events can be presented in a novel which will be j no whit less interesting than a book of the hour dealing ] with entirely imaginary characters. The reader of this > book will agree that she has thoroughly proved her point \ Published by Burns, Oates and Washbourne, and to be ob- 5 tained from all Catholic booksellers in New Zealand. <