1. Georg Lukács, The Historical Novel, trans. Hannah and Stanley Mitchell (1937; rpt. London: Merlin, 1962), p. 23.
2. Harry E. Shaw, The Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and his Successors (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983), p. 25.
3. John Fowles, ‘On Writing a Novel’, Cornhill Magazine, 1060 (1969), 281–95, p. 286.
4. John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969; rpt. London: Panther, 1972), p. 15.
5. James Acheson, John Fowles (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998), p. 33.