Bibliography for Winston Graham and Historical Fiction
Dwight Enys and Caroline Penvenen marry; shot on location
at St Winnow Church, the River Fowey, Cornwall 1977-78 BBC Poldark
Primary Texts
- Graham, Winston. [The] Angry Tide. 1977; rpt. London: Pan, 1977
- ----------------------. [The] Angry Tide. 1977; rpt. London: Pan Macmillan, 2008.
- ----------------------. Bella Poldark. 2002; rpt. London: Pan Macmillan, 2008.
- ----------------------. [The] Black Moon. 1973; rpt. London: Pan, 1996.
- ----------------------. [The] Black Moon. 1973; rpt. London: Pan Macmillan, 2008.
- ----------------------. Cordelia. 1949; rpt. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, n.d. Book-of-the-Month-Club edition.
- ----------------------. Demelza. 1946; rpt. London: Fontana/Collin & Pan, 1968.
- ----------------------. Demelza. 1946; rpt. Naperville, Ill: Sourcebooks, 2010.
- ----------------------. [The] Four Swans. 1976; rpt. London: Pan Macmillan, 2008.
- ----------------------. [The] Grove of Eagles. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963. Book-of-the-Month-Club edition.
- ----------------------. Jeremy Poldark. 1950; rpt. London: Bodley Head, 1961.
- ----------------------. Jeremy Poldark. 1950; rpt. London: Pan Macmillan, 2008.
- ----------------------. [The] Little Walls 1955; rpt. London: Fontana/Collins, 1967
- ----------------------. [The] Loving Cup. 1984; London: Fontana/Collins, 1985.
- ----------------------. [The] Loving Cup. 1984; London: Pan Macmillan, 2008.
- ----------------------. Marnie/Greek Fire/The Forgotten Story. 1961 (Marnie), 1957 (Greek Fire), 1945 (The Forgotten Story)
rpt. London: Chapmans Omnibus, 1992.
- ----------------------. Memoirs of a Private Man. 2003; London: Pan Macmillan, 2004.
- ----------------------. [The] Miller's Dance. 1982; London: Pan Macmillan, 2008.
- ----------------------. Night Journey. 1941 Bodley Head; rpt. rev. ed. London: Fontana, 1966/68.
- ----------------------. Poldark's Cornwall. With photographs by Simon McBride. London: Bodley Head, 1983.
- ----------------------. Ross Poldark. 1945; rpt. London: Fontana, 1968.
- ----------------------. Ross Poldark. 1945; rpt. Naperville, Ill: Sourcebooks, 2010.
- ----------------------. [The] Spanish Armada. London & Garden City, NY: Rainbird/Doubleday, 1972.
- ----------------------. Stephanie. 1992; rpt. NY: Carroll & Graf, 1993.
- ----------------------. [The] Stranger from the Sea. 1981; rpt. London: Pan Macmillan, 2008.
- ----------------------. Take My Life. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967.
- ----------------------. [The] Tumbled House. 1959; rpt. London: Collins Fontana, 1973.
- ----------------------. Tremor. 1995; rpt. London: PanMacmillan, 1996.
- ----------------------. [The] Twisted Sword. 1990; rpt. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1991.
- ----------------------. [The] Twisted Sword. 1990; rpt. London: Pan, 1991.
- ----------------------. Warleggan. 1953; rpt. London: Pan Macmillan, 2008.
- ----------------------. The Walking Stick. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967.
- ----------------------. Woman in the Mirror. 1975; rpt. Pan Millan, 1997.
North coast above Boscastle, Crackington Haven
Secondary Texts for Graham, Poldark and Cornish region novels & films
- Barker, Dennis. ‘Graham, Winston Mawdsley (1908?–2003), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Jan 2007; online edn, Jan 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/92243, accessed 30 May 2010]
- Berlin, Isaiah. “Two Concepts of Liberty.” Liberty. Ed. Henry Hardy. Oxford: Clarenon, 1969.
- Buckley, Allen. the Story of Mining in Cornwall: A World of Payable Ground. Cornwall: Fowey, 2005.
- Clarke, David. Poldark Country. Cornwall: Bossiney, 1967. On the BBC mini-series.
- Collins, Wilkie. Wilkie Collins’s Rambles Beyond Railway: Reveries of Cornish Travels. DodoPress facsimile of 1852 2nd edition
- Daniel, John Jeremiah and Joseph Henry Collins. A Compendium of the History of Cornwall. 2010 Facsimile reprint of book printed: Cornwall: Netherton Worth, 1880.
- Dring, Jim. Online information about Winston Graham, his Poldark and other novels.
- ----------. An Annotated Bibliography of all Graham's Writing.
- DuMaurier, Daphne. Vanishing Cornwall. With photographs by Christian Browning. Middlesex: Penguin,
1967.
- -----------------. Castle Dor, with Arthur Quiller-Couch, intro. Nina Bawden. London: Virago, 2004.
- Ellis, Robin. Making Poldark. Cornwall: Bossiney, 1978. On the BBC mini-series
- Esdaile, Charles. The Peninsula War. London: Penguin, 2002.
- Fraser, Ronald. Napoleon's Cursed War: Popular Resistance in the Spanish Civil War. London: Verso, 2008.
- Gaskell, Elizabeth. Sylvia's Lovers. 1911: London: Dent/Everyman, 1971. A genuinely relevant historical novel.
- Graham, Frank Moore. Smuggling in Cornwall and his Cornish Smugglers' Tales. Hawker's Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall. 1870; rpt. Nigel J Clarke Publications. 4Rev Ed,
1986.
- Hague, William. William Pitt the Younger. London: Harper Collins, 2004.
- Jenkin, A.K. Hamilton. The Cornish Miner. 1927: London: George Allen & Unwin, 1962.
- Keegan, John. The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme. New York: Vintage, 1977. For The Twisted Sword
- Lang, Ceri. Poldark - Series 1. © J.A.Knott - 2002-2006. Online DVD Reviews. Excellent informative account.
- Macdonald, Gina. "Winston Graham," Contemporary Literary Criticism, 23 (1983): 191-194.
- Marcus, G. J. A naval History of England, Vol 2: The Age of Nelson. Sheffield: Applebaum: The Scolar Press, 1971.
- ---------------. Heart of Oak. London: Oxford, 1975.
- Moody, Ellen. "'I have a right to choose my own life:' Liberty in Winston Graham's Poldark Novels" A Paper Delivered at a meeting of the East Central Region of American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies conference. http://www.jimandellen.org/LibertyPoldarkNovels.html
- Moore, Dafydd. "Patriotism, Politeness, and National Identity in the South West of England in the Late Eighteenth Century," ELH. 76:3, (2009).
- Powell, David. Charles James Fox, Man of the People. London: Hutchinson, 1989.
- Scott, Tim.: "Winston Graham, author of the 'Poldark' series." Book and Magazine Collector, 83 (1991):22-29.
- Thompson, E. P., Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaugh, John G. Rule. Albion's Fatal Tree Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England. London: Pantheon, 1967.
- Waugh, Mary. Smuggling in Devon and Cornwall, 1700-1850. Newbery, Berkshire: Countryside Books, 1961.
- "Winston (Mawdsley) Graham." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 14 June 2010.
On Line Information about Winston Graham, his Poldark and other books
Drawing on the covers of all the Bodley Head editions of the Poldark novels
Historical Fiction
- Burstein, Miriam Elizabeth. “The fictional afterlife of Anne Boleyn: how to do things with the Queen, 1901-2006, Clio 37:1 (2007). The stereotypes Boleyn has gone through resembles types of women in Graham's historical fiction.
- Crapa, Joseph Robert. “Progressives in search of a usable past: the role of a native tradition of idealism in the social novels of David Graham Phillips, Winston Churchill, and Robert Herrick, 1900-17. Unpub. Doct. Diss. Univ of Arizona, 1975.
- de Groot, Jerome. The Historical Novel. London: Routledge, 2010.
- Fleishman, Avrom. The English Historical Novel: Walter Scott to Virginia Woolf. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1971.
- Hughes, Helen. The Historical Romance. London: Routledge, 1993.
- Keen, Suzanne. "The Historical Turn in British Fiction," A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction, ed. James F. English. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008
- ------------------. Romances of the Archives in Contemporary British Fiction. Toronto: Univ of Toronto Press, 2001.
- Regis, Pamela. A Natural History of the Romance Novel. Philadelphia: Univ of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
- Sanders, Andrew. The Victorian Historical Novel, 1840-1880. NY: St Martins, 1979.
- Wallace, Diana. The Woman's Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000. Hampshire: Palgrave, 2005.
From online Manchester site: Cordelia set in 19th century
Manchester, Music Halls figure prominently; Graham grew up in 20th C Manchester
Secondary Texts for Mystery and Suspense Fiction & Films
- Macdonald, Gina. "Winston (Mawdsley) Graham." British Mystery Writers, 1920-1939. Ed. Bernard Benstock and Thomas F. Staley. Detroit: Gale Research, 1989. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 77. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 14 June 2010.
- Moral, Tony Lee. Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2005. Filmmakers Series No. 95
- Pederson. Jay. P, Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf. St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, fourth edition, London: St. James Press, 1996.
- You, Wenjia. "When Sherlock Holmes and Freud meet: psychoanalysis and the mystery story." PsyArt, 2 (1998)
Mel Martin as Demelza, talking to John Bowe as Ross Poldark, home from Parliament,
from the 1996 TV film Stranger from the Sea,unjustly maligned, misunderstood
-- the depiction of women in all Graham's novels is "instinctively feminist"
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