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The Crusades Project: Victorian Literature

by: Megan L. Morris (Author)

Landing of King Louis, illustration from Gertrude Hollis's A Slave of the Saracen

The Crusades in the Nineteenth-Century: An Introduction

Madame Cottin's The Saracen, or Matilda and Malek Adhel (1810)
Paul Creswick's With Richard the Fearless: A Tale of the Red Crusade (1904)
The Fair Crusader (1871)
H. Rider Haggard's The Brethren (1904)
Felicia Hemans's “Cœur de Lion at the Bier of His Father,” “The Crusader’s War Song,” De Chantillon, or the Crusaders, a Tragedy, “The Troubadour, and Richard Cœur de Lion.”
Gertrude Hollis's Slave of the Saracen (1904)
Emily Sarah Holt's Lady Sybil’s Choice: A Tale of the Crusades (1879)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon's “The Crusader” and “The Knight’s Tale” (1838)
Francis Turner Palgrave's "A Crusader's Tomb" (1881)
Sir Lewis Morris's Gilbert Beckett and the Fair Saracen (1874)
William Motherwell's "The Crusader's Farewell" (1827)

Sir Walter Scott's The Betrothed (1825) and The Talisman (1825)
Charlotte Mary Yonge's The Prince and the Page: A Story of the Last Crusade (1866)

Select Bibliography of Other Significant Victorian Crusades Literature