Historical Fiction – Retrospect Journal

by Retrospect Journal 08/11/2021 0

Fiction

All Aboard the Bus to Lübeck

Written by Mai Takahashi. Leaving his hometown for the city of Lübeck, a young man contemplates the journey that awaits him and the fifteenth-century artist who inspires him.

by Retrospect Journal 23/05/2021 0

Fiction

Writen by Hazel Atkinson. Known for her unwavering fidelity, Penelope did not lose hope that her husband, Odysseus, would return from the Trojan War, despite the decades that passed. This fictional piece relates the story through the eyes of the legendary Queen of Ithaca.

by Retrospect Journal 16/05/2021 0

Reviews

Review: Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell (2020)

Written by Melissa Kane. Maggie O’Farrell’s is a magisterial text. The writing is sublime, bringing to life Elizabethan Stratford-upon-Avon. However, it is a difficult text and requires a degree of familiarity with its inspiration, Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

by Retrospect Journal 16/05/2021 0

Fiction

Every Man needs a Perfect Wife

Written by Jenn Gosselin. Satirizing a 1956 article from Good Housekeeping, this piece of historical fiction speculates on how R.E. Dumas Milner may have expected women to behave.