List of historical novelists in the public domain  

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This page provides a list of novelists in the public domain as of 2022, who have written historical novels. Countries named are where they worked for longer periods. Alternative names appear before the dates.

A

• Leopoldo Alas (1852–1901, Spain)
• Edwin Abbott (1838–1926, England)
• Emma Adler (1858–1935, Austria)
• Lucy Aikin (1781–1864, England)
• William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882, England)
• Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862–1919, US)
• Miriam Alexander (born 1879, England)
• Willibald Alexis (1798–1871, Germany)
• Alexander Allardyce (1846–1896, Scotland)
• Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862–1919, US)
• Rebecca Agatha Armour (1845–1891, Canada)

B

• Andrew Balfour (1873–1931, Scotland)
• Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825–1894, Scotland)
• Miklós Bánffy (1873–1950, Hungary)
• John Banim (1798–1842, Ireland)
• Isabella Banks (1821–1897, England)
• Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924, England)
• Vasil Barnovi (1856–1934, Georgia/Soviet Union)
• Adolf Bartels (1862–1945, Germany)
• Ada Ellen Bayly (1857–1903, England), pseudonym of Edna Lyall
• Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914, England/Italy)
• Sir Walter Besant (1836–1901, England)
• Tom Bevan (1868–1938, England)
• R. D. Blackmore (1825–1900, England)
• Elizabeth Bonhôte (1744–1818, England)
• Anna Eliza Bray (1790–1883, England)
• Valery Bryusov (1873–1924, Russia/Soviet Union)
• John Buchan (1875–1940, Scotland)
• Jacob Breda Bull (1853–1930, Norway)
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873, England)
• Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950, US)

C

• Hall Caine (1853–1931, England/Isle of Man)
• Italo Calvino (1923–1985, Italy)
• William Carleton (1794–1869, Ireland)
• Catherine Carswell (1879–1946, Scotland)
• Willa Cather (1873–1947, US)
• Aleksey Chapygin (1870–1937, Russia/Soviet Union)
• Isabel Cheix (1839–1899, Spain)
• Alfred John Church (1829–1912, England)
• Winston Churchill (1871–1947, US)
• Mrs. Henry Clarke (1853–1908, England)
• Marcus Clarke (1846–1881, Australia)
• Christabel Rose Coleridge (1843–1921, England)
• Wilkie Collins (1824–1889, England)
• Joseph Conrad (1857–1924, England)
• James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851, US)
• Helen Craik (c. 1751–1825, Scotland/England)
• Catherine Cuthbertson (c. 1775–1842, England)

D

• Felix Dahn (1834–1912, Germany)
• Grigory Danilevsky (1829–1890, Ukraine/Russian Empire)
• William Stearns Davis (1877–1930, US)
• Penelope Delta (1874–1941, Greece)
• Charles Dezobry (1798–1871, France)
• Charles Dickens (1812–1870, England)
• Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881, England)
• Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905, US)
• Thomas Doubleday (1790–1870, England)
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930, Scotland/England)
• Anna Harriett Drury (1824–1912, England)
• John Langalibalele Dube (1871–1946, South Africa) in isiZulu
• Alexandre Dumas, père (1802–1870, France)

E

• Georg Ebers (1837–1898, Germany)
• Ernst Eckstein (1845–1900, Germany)
• John George Edgar (1834–1864, England)
• George Eliot (1819–1880, England)
• József Eötvös (1813–1871, Hungary)
• Erckmann-Chatrian (France), pseudonym of Émile Erckmann (1822–1899) and Alexandre Chatrian (1826–1890)
• Evelyn Everett-Green (1856–1932, England)

F

• Frederic William Farrar (1831–1903, England)
• Madame de la Fayette (1634–1693, France)
• George Manville Fenn (1831–1909, England)
• Mrs. E. M. Field (1856–1940, Ireland)
• Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880, France)
• Theodor Fontane (1819–1898, Germany)
• E. M. Foster, Mrs. (fl. late 18th – early 19th c., England)
• Louise von François (1817–1893, Germany)
• Bruno Frank (1878–1945, Germany/US)
• Mary Crawford Fraser (1851–1922, Italy/US)
• Gustav Freytag (1816–1895, Germany)

G

• Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920, Spain)
• Géza Gárdonyi (1863–1922, Hungary)
• Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865, England)
• Judith Gautier (1845–1917, France)
• George Gissing (1857–1903, England)
• Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852, Russia)
• James Grant (1822–1887, Scotland)
• Gerald Griffin (1803–1840, Ireland)

H

• H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925, England)
• Kristin Hannah (born 1960, US)
• Thomas Hardy (1840–1928, England)
• Bret Harte (1836–1902, US)
• Charles Boardman Hawes (1889–1923, US)
• G. A. Henty (1832–1902, England)
• Wilhelm Herchenbach (1818–1889, Germany)
• Maurice Hewlett (1861–1923, England)
• Ginés Pérez de Hita (c. 1544 – c. 1619, Spain)
• Emily Sarah Holt (1836–1893, England)
• Victor Hugo (1802–1885, France)

I

J

• George Payne Rainsford James (1799–1860, England)
• Alois Jirásek (1851–1930, Austrian Empire/Czechoslovakia)

K

• Annie Keary (1825–1879, England)
• Charles Kingsley (1819–1875, England)
• Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936, India/England)
• Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812–1887, Poland)
• Gyula Krúdy (1878–1933, Hungary)
• Hermann Kurz (1813–1873, Germany)

L

• Ludwig Laistner (1845–1896, Germany)
• Andrew Lang (1844–1912, Scotland/England)
• Mariano José de Larra (1809–1837, Spain)
• Sophia Lee (1750–1824, England)
• Celia Moss Levetus (1819–1873, England)
• John Gibson Lockhart (1794–1854, Scotland)
• Luo Guanzhong (1330–1400, China)

M

• Ma Duanlin (1245–1322, China)
• Catherine Maberly (1805–1875, Ireland)
• Heinrich Mann (1871–1950, Germany/France)
• Anne Manning (1807–1879, England)
• Frederick Marryat (1792–1848, England)
• Sir Herbert Maxwell (1845–1937, Scotland)
• Elizabeth Meeke (1761 – c. 1826, England)
• Wilhelm Meinhold (1797–1851, Pomerania/Germany)
• Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1865–1941, Russia/France)
• Kálmán Mikszáth (1847–1940, Hungary)
• Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949, US)
• Ferenc Móra (1879–1934, Hungary)
• Thomas Moore (1779–1852, Ireland/England)
• Daniil Mordovtsev (1830–1905, Russia)
• Luise Mühlbach (1814–1873, Germany)

N

• Ladislav Nádaši-Jégé (1866–1940, Hungary/Czechoslovakia)
• Marie von Najmajer (1844–1904, Austrian E)
• Benedikte Naubert (1752–1819, Germany)
• John Neal (1793–1876, US)
• John Henry Newman (1801–1890, England)

O

• Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897, Scotland/England)
• Baroness Orczy (1865–1947, England)

P

• Henriette Paalzow (1788–1847, Germany)
• Walter Pater (1839–1894, England)
• Roberto Payró (1867–1928, Argentina)
• Frances Mary Peard (1835–1923, England)
• Karoline Pichler (1769–1843, Austria)
• Jovan Sterija Popović (1806–1856, Austrian E)
• Jane Porter (1776–1850, Scotland/England)
• Bolesław Prus (1847–1912, Poland)
• Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837, Russia)
• Howard Pyle (1853–1911, US)

Q

R

• Charles Reade (1814–1884, England)
• Franziska von Reitzenstein (1834–1896, Germany)
• Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert (1797–1872, France)
• Emma Robinson (1814–1890, England)
• Romain Rolland (1866–1944, France)
• Joseph Roth (1894–1939, Austria/Germany)
• Fredrika Runeberg (1807–1879, Finland)
• Viktor Rydberg (1828–1895, Sweden)

S

• Rafael Sabatini (1875–1950, Italy/England)
• Joseph Viktor von Scheffel (1826–1886, Germany)
• Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832, Scotland)
• Mary Shelley (1797–1851, England)
• Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1834–1903, England)
• Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916, Poland)
• LaVyrle Spencer (1864–1926, England)
• Louisa Stanhope (fl. 1806–1827, England)
• Ludwik Stasiak (1858–1924, Poland)
• Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929, India/England)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894, Scotland)
• Agnes Strickland (1796–1874, England)
• Ulrika von Strussenfelt (1801–1873, Sweden)

T

• William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863, England)
• Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817–1875, Russia)
• Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883–1945, Russia/Soviet Union)
• Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910, Russia)
• Anthony Trollope (1815–1882, England)

U

• Max Uhlemann (died 1862, Germany)

V

• Carl Franz van der Velde (1779–1824, Germany)

W

• Lew Wallace (1827–1905, US)
• Helena Westermarck (1857–1938), Finland)
• Stanley J. Weyman (1855–1928, England)
• Charles Whistler (1856–1913, England)
• George Whyte-Melville (1821–1878, Scotland)

Y

• Yamada Bimyō (山田 美妙, 1868–1910, Japan)
• Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823–1901, England)

Z

• Mikhail Zagoskin (1789–1852, Russia)

See also

• List of writers