Washington Irving 
The Conquest Of Granada 

In 1830 Irving published his ‘ Chronicles of the Conquest of Granada, ‘ one of the most delightful of his works, an exact history, for such it is admitted to be by thosewho have searched most carefully the ancient records of Spain, yet so full of personal incident, so diversified with surprising turns of fortune, and these wrought up with such picturesque effect, that, to use an expression of Pope, a young lady might read it by mistake for a romance.