Historical Fiction By & About Women

Provided by the staff at the West Universty Branch Library.

	Bess Aldrich. A Lantern in Her Hand A classic novel of Nebraskan pioneer life.
	Rita Mae Brown. High Hearts Horsewoman Geneva Chatfield dresses as a young man and follows her husband into the Civil War, joining the Confederate forces.
	Cindy Bonner. Looking After Lily During the late 1800s in Texas, while her husband is in jail, 16 year-old Lily finds herself pregnant and under the temporary care of her rather rascally brother-in-law.
	Barbara Chase-Riboud. The President's Daughter The turbulent life of Harriet Hemmings, daughter of Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemmings.
	Tracy Chevalier. Girl with a Pearl Earring Vermeer’s housemaid, Griet, becomes the subject of one of his most famous paintings, and is forever changed by the experience.
	Gay Courter. The Midwife's Advice Although her own marriage is unraveling, Bellvue Hospital midwife Hannah Sokolow counsels others on psychological and sexual marital issues.   Set in New York circa 1913 – 1922.
	Donna Cross. Pope Joan During the Dark Ages, a woman takes the identity of her dead brother and enters the monastery, eventually ascending to the Papal throne.
	Philippa Gregory. The Other Boleyn Girl Two sisters compete for the love of King Henry VIII.
	Cecilia Holland. Pacific Street During San Francisco’s Gold Rush days, escaped slave Frances Hardheart opens a saloon.
	Rosalind Laker. The Sugar Pavilion In 1793, French exile Sophie Delcourt chooses the fashionable beach resort town of Brighton, England as her new home, where she works hard to establish a confectionary business and attracts the romantic attention of two very different men.
	Colleen McCullough. Ladies of Missalonghi The Cinderella story of a genteel, threadbare spinster’s transformation into an emboldened modern woman. Set in small town Australia in the early 1900s.
	Margaret Mitchell. Gone With the Wind America’s beloved Civil War classic starring the temperamental and wily southern belle, Scarlett O’Hara.
	Marge Piercy. Gone to Soldiers A sprawling novel of World War II, unusual in its focus on women’s stories. Set both in Europe and America.
	Jean Plaidy. William's Wife At age 15, England’s Princess Mary enters into a political marriage with the Dutch prince William of Orange, thereby saving her country from Catholic rule. See other titles in this series, Queens of England.
	Jane Smiley. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton Abolitionist Lidie Newton’s quest to find her husband’s murderer.   Set in pre-Civil War Kansas.
	Margaret Walker. Jubilee Based on oral history, this classic novel portrays the life of a mulatto woman, Vyry, before, during and after the Civil War.