Jennifer Chiaverini
Canary Girls
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With Great Britain’s involvement in the Great War ramping up, April Tipton, a housemaid, and Lucy Dempsey, a housewife whose architect husband ...Read Review
Switchboard Soldiers
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In 1917, telephone operators made up a working group that was already female: “Number, please?” arrived in a woman’s voice to the early ...Read Review
The Women’s March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession
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This novel focuses on three historic figures in the fight for women’s suffrage: Alice Paul, Ida Wells Barnett, and Maud Malone. When ...Read Review
Mrs. Lincoln’s Sisters: A Novel
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As the fourth child of seven from her parents’ marriage, and with an additional nine half-siblings born from her father’s second marriage, ...Read Review
Resistance Women: A Novel
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Beginning in 1929, Resistance Women follows the life of Mildred Fish Harnack, an American literary scholar married to the brilliant German economist Arvid Harnack, ...Read Review
The Enchantress of Numbers
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The only legitimate daughter of George Gordon, Lord Byron, is the focus of Chiaverini’s newest novel. Born in 1815 of a disastrous marriage ...Read Review
Fates and Traitors: A Novel of John Wilkes Booth
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We’ve all heard of John Wilkes Booth, the actor who assassinated President Lincoln, but who knows much about Booth beyond that? In ...Read Review
Christmas Bells
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In 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, still reeling from a personal tragedy and living amid the national tragedy of the Civil War, wrote the poem “...Read Review
Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule
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When Ulysses S. Grant courted Miss Julia Dent from a Missouri slave-owning family, he was fresh from West Point and soon to be ...Read Review
Mrs. Lincoln’s Rival
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Ambitious, well-educated, and beautiful, Kate Chase was called the “Belle of Washington” during the Civil War years. She sought to be the ultimate ...Read Review
