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- APPENDIX III - OLDEST ALTERNATE HISTORIES
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- This appendix lists Alternate Histories written before that genre of writing
- could be considered a genre. Arguments can be made for a number of possible
- dates marking a possible beginning point, from the 1931 publication of Squire's
- anthology IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE to the 1953 publication of Ward Moore's
- BRING THE JUBILEE. The date chosen here is 1939, the year that de Camp's
- original short story of "Lest Darkness Fall" saw publication. The increasing
- number of alternate histories which saw publication from the mid-1930s on are
- presumably a result of the respectful treatment given the subject by the
- essayists in J.C. Squire's anthology IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE and by
- historian Albert Toynbee in his A STUDY OF HISTORY.
-
- The first undisputable AH *novel* is Geoffroy-Chateau's NAPOLEON ET LA
- CONQUETE DU MONDE (1836), and the earliest novel in English Holford Costello's
- ARISTOPIA (1895). Other pre-1850 book-length items listed below are not
- themselves alternate history but contain AH digressions. The earliest AH
- short story is apparently Hawthorne's "P.'s Correspondence" (1845).
-
- Titles are presented here by date of first known *publication*, although some
- items are known to have been written several years in advance of that date.
-
- c 1 Livy (Titus Livius), AB URBE CONDITA
- 1732 Lesage, Alain-Rene, LES AVENTURES DE MONSIEUR ROBERT CHEVALIER, DIT DE
- BEAUCHENE, CAPITAINE DE FILIBUSTIERS DANS LA NOUVELLE-FRANCE
- 1791 Delisle de Sales, Jean Claude Izouard, MA REPUBLIQUE
- 1813 Pignotti, Lorenzo, STORIA DELLA TOSCANA SINO EL PRINCIPATO: CON DIVERSI
- SAGGI SULLE SCIENZE, LETTERE E ARTI
- 1836 Geoffroy-Chateau, Louis-Napoleon, NAPOLEON ET LA CONQUETE DU MONDE,
- 1812-1823: HISTOIRE DE LA MONARCHIE UNIVERSELLE
- 1845 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, "P.'s Correspondence"
- 1849 Disraeli, Isaac, "Of a History of Events Which Have Not Happened"
- 1872 Blanqui, Louis-Auguste, L'ETERNITE PAR LES ASTRES: HYPOTHESE
- ASTRONOMIQUE
- 1876 Renouvier, Charles, UCHRONIE (L'UTOPIE DANS L'HISTOIRE), ESQUISSE
- HISTORIQUE APOCRYPHE DU DEVELOPMENT DE LA CIVILISATION EUROPEENNE
- TELQU'IL N'A PAS ETE, TEL QU'IL AURAIT PU ETRE
- 1881 Hale, Edward Everett, "Hands Off"
- 1895 Holford, Costello, ARISTOPIA. A ROMANCE-HISTORY OF THE NEW WORLD
- 1899 Lawrence, Edmund, IT MAY HAPPEN YET: A TALE OF BONAPARTE'S INVASION OF
- ENGLAND
- 1900 Williams, Frank Purdy, HALLIE MARSHALL: A TRUE DAUGHTER OF THE SOUTH
- 1904 Beerbohm, Max, "A Panacea"
- 1905 Wells, H.G., A MODERN UTOPIA
- 1907 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, THE IFS OF HISTORY
- Trevelyan, G.M., "If Napoleon had Won the Battle of Waterloo"
- 1920 Beck, James M., "It Might Have Been"
- 1921 Rigaut, Jacques, "Un brillant sujet"
- 1922 Baring, Maurice, "The Alternative"
- 1924 Slonimski, Antoni, TORPEDA CZASU: POWIESC FANTASTYCZNA
- 1926 Dent, Guy, EMPEROR OF THE IF
- 1926 Petrie, Charles, "If: A Jacobite Fantasy"
- Waldron, Webb, "If Lincoln had Yielded"
- 1927 Motta, Luigi, IL TONNEL SOTTOMARINO
- 1929 Doyle, Arthur Conan, "The Death Voyage"
- Hearnshaw, F.J.C., THE "IFS" OF HISTORY
- Laumann, E.M., & Rene Jeanne, SI, LE 9 THERMIDOR...: HYPOTHESE
- HISTORIQUE
- 1930 Churchill, Winston S., "If Lee had not Won the Battle of Gettysburg"
- Thurber, James, "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox"
- Waldman, Milton, "If Booth had Missed Lincoln"
- 1931 Squire, J.C. (ed), IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE: LAPSES INTO IMAGINARY
- HISTORY
- Belloc, Hilaire, "If Drouet's Cart had Stuck"
- Chesterton, G.K., "If Don John of Austria had Married Mary Queen of
- Scots"
- Fisher, H.A.L., "If Napoleon had Escaped to America"
- Guedalla, Philip, "If the Moors in Spain had Won"
- Knox, Ronald, "If the General Strike had Succeeded"
- Ludwig, Emil, "If the Emperor Frederick had not had Cancer"
- Maurois, Andre, "If Louis XVI had an Atom of Firmness"
- Nicolson, Harold, "If Byron had Become King of Greece"
- Squire, J.C., "If It Had Been Discovered in 1930 that Bacon Really Did
- Write Shakespeare"
- Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, "If the Dutch had Kept Nieuw Amsterdam"
- 1932 Goodman, Arthur, IF BOOTH HAD MISSED: A DRAMA OF THE RECONSTRUCTION
- PERIOD
- 1933 Schachner, Nat, "Ancestral Voices"
- Squire, J.C., "What Might Have Happened"
- 1934 Leinster, Murray, "Sideways in Time"
- Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Far
- Eastern Christian Civilization"
- Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Far
- Western Christian Civilization"
- Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive
- Scandinavian Civilization"
- 1935 Benet, Stephen Vincent, "The Curfew Tolls"
- Daniels, David R., "The Branches of Time"
- Rolfe, Frederick William, & C.H. Pirie-Gordon, HUBERT'S ARTHUR: BEING
- CERTAIN CURIOUS DOCUMENTS FOUND AMONG THE LITERARY REMAINS OF MR.
- N.C.
- 1936 Dabney, Virginia, "If the South had Won the War"
- 1937 Aron, Robert, VICTOIRE A WATERLOO
- 1938 Bopp, Leon, LIAISONS DU MONDE: ROMAN
- Sell, William, "Other Tracks"
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, "Issue and Men"
- 1939 de Camp, L. Sprague, "Lest Darkness Fall"
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