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As an aside, I should add that I have only included historical novels which are set in one period alone or in two (as is the case of the Nantucket Legacy trilogy) but have dismissed romances which include time travelling or any other supernatural elements, as my focus is on the historical novel that tries to generate a sense of verisimilitude. This explains why a very interesting novel such as Grey Dawn. A Tale of Abolition and Union, by Nyri A. Bakkalian (2020), has been rejected. Though it features a Quaker heroine, Chloë Parker Stanton, who joins the Union army at the time of the Civil War, it is set in two periods: the nineteenth century and the year 2000, to which Chloë is magically transported. In the protagonist’s own words, since she is one of the novel’s first-person narrators: “Three days after the Battle of Gettysburg, all changed when I was flung to the far future” (2020: 1). Besides resorting to supernatural elements, the novel, as said, is partly set in the year 2000; therefore, in those sections that take place in the twenty-first century it ceases to be, strictly speaking, historical. It may nonetheless be of great interest to whoever is drawn to romances with Quaker characters, as it is the only one I have found that features a trans protagonist.