Susan Higginbotham
The Queen of the Platform: A Novel of Women’s Rights Activist Ernestine Rose
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Ernestine Rose, Polish-born freethinker and women’s rights advocate, lived a life that spanned most of the 19th century. This novel narrates her ...Read Review
John Brown’s Women
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Abolitionist John Brown’s remarkable life and family are vividly explored through the eyes of three women: his wife, Mary; his daughter-in-law, Wealthy; ...Read Review
The First Lady and the Rebel
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This novel, running from 1839-1876, lightly fictionalizes the relationship between Mary Todd Lincoln and one of her half-sisters, Emily Todd Helm. It is ...Read Review
Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower
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Higginbotham, a prolific author of English-focused historicals, gives us an excellent non-fiction retelling of the sad life and horrific death of Countess Margaret ...Read Review
Hanging Mary
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In this novel we meet Mary Surratt, the only woman convicted and executed in connection with the Lincoln assassination. The widow of a ...Read Review
The Woodvilles: The Wars of the Roses and England’s Most Infamous Family
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In 1464, Edward IV announced he had wed Elizabeth Woodville, an event that, for better or worse, would impact English history. The Woodvilles, often ...Read Review
Her Highness, The Traitor
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This is not the story of the nine-day Queen, Lady Jane Grey, but of her family, her husband Guildford Dudley’s family, and ...Read Review
The Queen of Last Hopes: The Story of Margaret of Anjou
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In her latest novel, Susan Higginbotham takes on the task of redeeming yet another maligned historical figure: Margaret of Anjou, wife of the ...Read Review
The Stolen Crown
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The story of Elizabeth Woodville and Edward IV has been told hundreds of times, but never quite the way that Higginbotham tells it ...Read Review
Staff Publication: Hugh and Bess
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Susan Higginbotham’s debut novel The Traitor’s Wife told the story of Eleanor, wife of Hugh le Despenser, intimate of King Edward ...Read Review
