historical novel

noun

1. a novel within the genre of historical fiction.

Word History and Origins

Origin of historical novel¹

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

By all appearances, Facebook had spurned his perfectly reputable historical novel simply because it was released by a right-wing publisher.

From Washington Post

It all started last fall when Republic published “Old Abe,” a historical novel by John Cribb about President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.

From Washington Post

But I think he felt very at home with the historical novel, very at home with biography, too.

From The Daily Beast

Unless Inferno is a historical novel, set circa 2000, then Googling oneself cannot be considered as a “new pastime.”

From The Daily Beast

Going back a few wars, our leaders sent the mob after the Nazis, the subject of my new historical novel, The Devil Himself.

From The Daily Beast

Question: How far a Historical Novel should be wholly episodic?

From Project Gutenberg

The Lay, a rhyming romance; Waverley an historical novel; what, it may be asked, is so very remarkable about their origins?

From Project Gutenberg

Spektor has also begun a historical novel dealing on the life of the founder of the sects of the Khassidim.

From Project Gutenberg

It is a historical novel, but the chief interest, as always in Sudermann, is psychological.

From Project Gutenberg

The book was a novel—a jumbo-size historical novel, of some seven or eight hundred pages.

From Project Gutenberg