This article was created as a spin-off of the overgrown List Of Fictional Books article. There is also a main article on Fictional Books in general.
'' Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell '' is an " Alternate History " of England in which magic is commonplace - in theory, at least, thought it is rarely practiced. Ms Clarke bolsters the realism of the novel with voluminous fictional books, periodicals, articles, authors, stories, and folktales. Following is a list of fictional works which are quoted in her alternate history.
- ''The Anatomy of a Minotaur'' by Charles Hether-Gray
- ''The Black Letters'' (Titus Watkins, 1817)
- ''The Blue Book'' by Valentine Mundy (1698)
- ''The Book of Magic'' by the Raven King
- ''A Child's History of the Raven King'' by John Waterbury, Lord Portishead (Longman: London, 1807)
- ''A Complete Description of Dr. Pale's fairy-servants, their Names, Histories, Characters, and the Services they performed for Him'' by John Segundus (Thomas Burnham: Northampton, 1799)
- ''Crimes of the False King'' by Peter Watershippe (Penzance, 1697)
- ''Curiouse Observations upon the Anatomie of Fairies'' by Holgarth and Pickle
- ''De Generibus Artium Magicarum Anglorum'' by Francis Sutton-Grove (1741)
- ''De Tractatu Magicarum Linguarum'' by Martin Pale
- ''Death's Library'' by Peter Watershippe (1448)
- ''A Defence of my Deeds Written while Wrongly Imprisoned by my Enemies in Newark Castle'' by Peter Watershippe (1459)
- ''Discourses upon the Kingdom of Light and the Kingdom of Darkness'' by Martin Pale
- ''Eighteen Wonders to be found in the House of Albion'' by Francis Pevensey
- ''English Magic'' by Jeremy Tott
- ''The Excellences of Christo-Judaic Magick''
- ''Exercitatio Magica Nobilissima''
- ''A Faire Wood Withering'' by Peter Watershippe (1444)
- ''Gatekeeper of Apollo'' by Nicholas Goubert
- ''Three Perfectible States of Being'' by William Pantler (Henry Lintot: London, 1735)
- ''The History and Practice of English Magic'' by Jonathan Strange (John Murray: London, 1816)
- ''The History of Seven''
- ''How to Putte Questiones to the Dark and understand its Answeres''
- ''Instructions'' by Jacques Belasis
- ''Letters and Miscellaneous Papers of Jonathan Strange'' edited by John Segundus (John Murray: London, 1824)
- ''Life of Jacques Belasis'' by John Waterbury, Lord Portishead (Longman: London, 1801)
- ''Life of Jonathan Strange'' by John Segundus (John Murray: London, 1820)
- ''Life of Nicholas Goubert'' by John Waterbury, Lord Portishead (Longman: London, 1805)
- ''The Mirrour of the Lyf of Ralph Stokesie'' by William Thorpe and Col. Tom Blue
- ''The Parliament of Women''
- ''Precepts for the Education of a Magician'' by Gilbert Norrell (unpublished)
- ''Prescriptions and Descriptions'' by Francis Sutton-Grove (1749)
- ''Revelations of Thirty-Six Other Worlds'' by Paris Ormskirk
- ''Rosa et Fons'' by an unknown 14th c. magician
- ''Treatise Concerning the Language of Birds'' by Thomas Lanchester
- ''The Tree of Learning'' by Gregory Absalom
- ''The Famulus'' (one issue only)
- ''The Friends of English Magic''
- ''The Modern Magician''
- "Essay on the Extraordinary Revival of English Magic,, &c." (essay) by John Waterbury, Lord Portishead (John Murray: London, 1814)
- "Thomas de Dundelle" (poem) by Chretien De Troyes
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