Word: gaskin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...straight historical novels and detective stories sagged and publishers needed a new kind of formula entertainment to promote. Today the field is dominated by Victoria Holt, the most prolific writer, and Mary Stewart, the most accomplished. Right behind come such veterans of genteel fiction as Norah Lofts, Catherine Gaskin and Phyllis Whitney, the only American in this group who has a major reputation. Elizabeth Goudge tends toward "atmosphere" and romantic biography. There are newcomers coming along-Jill Tattersall, Jane Aiken Hodge-but neither has yet had a major...