John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman accommodates real historical characters and events of the Victorian period in a fictional narrative. This paper analyzes the novel from the perspective of new historicism. The characteristics of the historical writing are presented in the following three aspects: Firstly, the novel is based on real history, echoing “History” through accurate places and time, ingenious details, and the repeated repetition of the keyword “era”; At the same time, the novel focuses on the ordinary people in the “histories” and shows the life of individual characters, especially women in the Victorian period, through the thick description of unknown materials; In the interweaving of reality and fiction, the novel reflects on the exploitation of capital, the pedantic thinking of the characters and the “machine-like” era through intrusive narration, and rebels against the traditional omniscient narrative and the traditional single ending, presenting the distinctive characteristics of anti-traditional writing.