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THE USENET ALTERNATE HISTORY LIST
Version 18 - 12 April 1994
APPENDIX III - OLDEST ALTERNATE HISTORIES
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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