Gilded Age
Enrico G
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The hero of this fictionalised memoir is the author’s great-grandfather, Enrico Gardini. A real-life hero, Enrico is a courageous but ordinary man ...Read Review
Vanishing Point
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The French-born 19th-century American naturalist painter George Hetzel never received the acclaim he hoped for, even after establishing his own painting school called ...Read Review
The Ladies Hall
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Biographical FictionInspirational
The title refers to the women’s residence at Oberlin College, one of the earliest colleges to admit women and African Americans. Three ...Read Review
Ghost Town
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During the harsh industrial world of late 19th-century American coal towns, where whole new communities emerged as places of ambition and decay, life ...Read Review
The Haunting of Avis Lovelock
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1898. Avis Lovelock is a professional sceptic who earns her living performing ‘insights’ into the lives of audience members, really just interpreting what she ...Read Review
Edmonia
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Mary Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907) was a neoclassical sculptor of Black-Indigenous parentage who gained international renown in the late 19th century yet fell into ...Read Review
Daughters of the Sun and Moon
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Los Angeles is a dirty, lawless, and wild place, so the small female population is protected – by either a husband or one of ...Read Review
First Daughter
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President Grover Cleveland is two years into his second, famously non-consecutive term. He’s put the scandal that dogged his first election—an ...Read Review
The Harvey Girl
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Best-selling writer Dana Stabenow (of the beloved Kate Shugak mysteries) introduces a brand new detective series set in the 19th century of America’...Read Review
The Lumber Baron’s Wife
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In 1873 New York, Hannah Wagner is suffering from an unimaginable loss. All three of her children died after their father, a doctor, took ...Read Review
