Biographical Fiction
Catalina, A True Story
This novel was inspired by the autobiography of Catalina de Erauso, who was born in Basque country around 1592. Known…
The Last Wife Of Henry VIII
Erickson is well known to lovers of royal non-fiction. Only with her previous novel, The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette,…
Empress
During the Tang Dynasty, a woman named Heavenlight rises to become the most powerful woman in 7th century China. Born…
The Last Van Gogh
In 1890, during the last two months of his life, Vincent van Gogh was in the care of Dr. Gachet,…
Devotion
This slender novel provides a rather romanticized account of the life of Winnie (née Varina Anne) Davis. The second daughter…
Mary
Committed to the Bellevue Place Sanitarium by her eldest son in 1875, Mary Todd Lincoln begins to write the story…
Angelmonster
Veronica Bennett’s vivid portrayal of Mary Shelley in Angelmonster guides readers through the inspiration that led to her masterpiece…
Our Lives Are the Rivers
History recognizes Manuela Sáenz, mistress of the 19th century revolutionary Simón Bolívar, as one of South America’s earliest feminists…
La Salle
La Salle is an epistolary novel that presents a selective view of the explorations by the 17th century French…
The Last Boleyn
. (Prev. pub. as Passion’s Reign, Kensington, 1983) Mary Boleyn, Anne’s long-eclipsed sister, has lately had her own surge of…
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