At the Circulating Library

Title Tag: Genre: Historical Novel: Ancient

Description: The following novels are set in ancient or Old Testament times, roughly before 500 BCE.

1. Celia Moss Levetus.  The Romance of Jewish History.  3 vol.  London: Saunders and Otley, 1840.
2. Robert Eyres Landor.  The Fawn of Sertorius.  2 vol.  London: Longman, 1846.
3. Robert Eyres Landor.  The Fountain of Arethusa.  2 vol.  London: Longman, 1848.
4. John Ross Macduff.  The Woodcutter of Lebanon: A Story Illustrative of a Jewish Institution.  1 vol.  London: James Nisbet, 1854.
5. Edwin Atherstone.  The Handwriting on the Wall: A Story.  3 vol.  London: Bentley, 1857.
6. Margaret Lawrence Jones.  Ismael and Cassander: or, The Jew and the Greek.  1 vol.  London: James Blackwood, 1860.
7. Charles Stokes Carey.  The Strength of Judah and the Vengeance of Asshur: A Tale of the Time of Isaiah.  1 vol.  London: Seeley, 1862.
8. Charlotte Maria Tucker.  Exiles in Babylon: or, Children of Light.  1 vol.  Edinburgh: Nelson and Sons, 1866.
9. Charlotte Maria Tucker.  The Triumph over Midian.  1 vol.  Edinburgh: Nelson and Sons, 1867.
10. Charlotte Maria Tucker.  Hebrew Heroes: A Tale Founded on Jewish History.  1 vol.  Edinburgh: Nelson and Sons, 1869.
11. Mrs. Alexander S. Orr.  Leah: A Tale of Ancient Palestine.  1 vol.  Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, 1869.
12. George John Whyte-Melville.  Sarchedon: A Legend of the Great Queen.  3 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1871.
13. Georg Moritz Ebers.  Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt.  2 vol.  London: Sampson Low, 1877.
14. Edwin Hodder.  Ephraim and Helah: A Story of the Exodus.  1 vol.  London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1878.
15. Peter Hay Hunter.  The Story of Daniel, his Life and Times.  1 vol.  Edinburgh: James Gemmell, 1883.
16. F. Marion Crawford.  Zoroaster.  2 vol.  London: Macmillan, 1885.
17. Georg Moritz Ebers.  An Egyptian Princess: An Historical Novel.  1 vol.  London: George Bell and Sons, 1887.
18. George Alfred Henty.  The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt.  1 vol.  London: Blackie, 1889.
19. Georg Moritz Ebers.  Joshua: A Story of Biblical Life.  2 vol.  London: Sampson Low, 1890.
20. Mary Anderson.  A Son of Noah.  1 vol.  London: Digby, Long, 1893.
21. Valentine Cameron Prinsep.  The Story of Abibal the Tsourian: Translated from the Phoenician by Edward Lovel Lester Preceded by an Account of the Finding of the Manuscript by Emily Watson.  1 vol.  London: Smith, Elder, 1893.
22. Lucas Cleeve.  Lazarus: A Tale of the Earth's Great Miracle.  1 vol.  London: Hutchinson, 1897.
23. Mary Anderson.  In the Promised Land.  1 vol.  London: Downey, 1898.
24. Louis Vintras.  Passion Royal: A Romance.  1 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1898.
25. William Waldorf Astor.  Pharaoh's Daughter, and Other Stories.  1 vol.  London: Macmillan, 1900.
26. Alfred Morris.  Eochaid the Heremhon: or, The Romance of the Lia Phail.  1 vol.  London: Robert Banks and Son, 1900.