>The Forgotten Sisters Who Pioneered the Historical Novel Jane and Anna Maria Porter ruled Britain’s literary scene—until male imitators wrote them out of the s

>The Forgotten Sisters Who Pioneered the Historical Novel Jane and Anna Maria Porter ruled Britain’s literary scene—until male imitators wrote them out of the story Ruled maybe. But they weren't neither the first English authors to write historical novels (The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe was published in 1594), nor the best. It's ridiculous to start inventing domains where women were first.