This volume focuses on historical fiction written by and for women, approximately, in the last 30 years and across the entire globe. It comprises three parts. Part 1 draws on the theme of the inner life and experiences of the female historical figure, Part 2 is concerned with genre-bending that fuels the construction of the vast majority of story worlds within the genre, and Part 3 with the idea of unusual angles that the historical fiction storytelling employs

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Alicja Bemben is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of English, the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. She is a co-organiser of various academic conferences and events, has co-edited several monographs, and authored a number of texts dealing with historiography (especially in the vein of Hayden White), historical novels (especially by Robert Graves), and their relationships. She cooperates with several journals, is a member of a few societies and research groups, and has coordinated a number of scientific projects.

Michael Joseph retired as Rare Books Librarian and Full Professor, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He is the author of The Teaching Guide to the Norton Anthology of Children's Literature (2005), over 65 scholarly texts (articles, book chapters, reviews, etc.) and various novels, books of short stories, and poetry. He is an editor of Handmade Literacies: Special Issue of The Lion and the Unicorn, and the Founding Director of the New Jersey Book Arts Symposium. His recent publications include "Making Video Poems from Poems Made from Diary Entries Made from Dreams" in Book 2.0 (2025, 12 (1-2)), Omni-Puss in Boots (2025), The Marvelous Real in a Land of Dreams (2024), and "Children's Poetry" in The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature (2023). In 2023, he was asked to participate in a discussion of contemporary children's poetry, which appears as chapter 29, "Contemporary Children's Poetry: A Colloquy" in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry (2023). Since 2016, he has been the Editor of The Robert Graves Review (formerly Gravesiana).