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Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

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Cynthia Harrod-Eagles is a British novelist known for historical family sagas and crime fiction. Born in Shepherd’s Bush, London, she studied English, history and philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and University College London. She wrote her first novel while at university and won the 1972 Young Writers’ Award for The Waiting Game. After combining writing with various commercial jobs, she became a full-time author in 1979 following the success of her ambitious historical series, The Morland Dynasty.

Her principal historical achievement is the 36-volume Morland Dynasty, which follows successive generations of a Yorkshire family through English history, beginning during the Wars of the Roses and reaching the political crises of 1936. Conceived as “history without tears”, the series blends fictional domestic lives with real rulers, wars and social change, paying particular attention to how ordinary people lived. Harrod-Eagles has also written the War at Home series, set during and immediately after the First World War; the Edwardian Ashmore Castle novels; and the Kirov Saga, set in nineteenth-century Russia. Alongside these historical works, she is the author of the contemporary Inspector Bill Slider mysteries.

Periods and events

Great Depression1929–1939 CE Armistice and Aftermath of World War I1918–1923 CE Roaring Twenties1920–1929 CE Edwardian Society1901–1914 CE Spanish Civil War1936–1939 CE Rise of Nazism1919–1933 CE British Home Front during World War I1914–1918 CE German Spring Offensive of 1918March–July 1918 CE Early Victorian Britain1837–1851 CE Women’s Suffrage Movement in Britain1903–1918 CE Battle of Trafalgar1805-10-21 American Civil War1861–1865 CE Battle of the Somme1916 CE Wars of the Roses1455–1487 CE Western Front1914–1918 CE Late Victorian Empire1870–1901 CE Jacobite Rising of 17451745–1746 CE Restoration1660–1685 CE English Civil War1642–1651 CE Russian Revolution1917 CE Crimean War1853–1856 CE Industrial Revolution in Britain1760–1830 CE Late Georgian Reform Era1815–1832 CE French Invasion of Russia / Patriotic War of 18121812 CE Second Boer War1899–1902 CE American Revolutionary War1775–1783 CE Henrician Reformation1530–1547 CE Monmouth Rebellion1685 CE Elizabethan Age1558–1603 CE French Revolution1789–1799 CE Regency Era1811–1820 CE Jacobite Rising of 17151715–1716 CE Battle of Waterloo1815-06-18 Post-war Britain1945–c. 1963

Historical fiction

Historical fiction series by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (4 series)

Morland Dynasty in Order

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 36 books 4.4(27,265)

The Morland Dynasty is a thirty-six-book family saga tracing the fictional Morlands of Yorkshire from 1434 to the approach of the Second World War. Beginning with the marriage of Robert Morland and Eleanor, a ward of the Beaufort family, the sequence follows successive generations as Morland Place grows…

War at Home in Order

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 2 books 4.6(1,177)

The War at Home series follows the Hunter family, their friends and their household staff through the First World War and its difficult aftermath. While men serve at the front, the women and servants of Artemis House face bereavement, shortages, air raids, new forms of work and the…

Ashmore Castle in Order

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 5 books 4.3(5,767)

The Ashmore Castle series follows the aristocratic Tallant family and the servants who sustain their great Yorkshire house during the opening years of the twentieth century. After the sudden death of the Earl of Stainton, his reluctant heir Giles inherits not only the title but debts, family divisions…

Kirov Trilogy in Order

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 3 books 4.2(935)

The Kirov Trilogy follows three generations connected with the fictional Kirov family against the splendour and violence of Imperial Russia. Beginning in 1803, the sequence moves from the Napoleonic invasion through the Crimean War to the First World War and the Russian Revolution, linking English heroines with a…

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