Late Medieval (1338 to 1485)
I, Christine
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Christine de Pizan narrates her story as a pioneering woman writer in 14th-15th century France. It begins when she is widowed and ...Read Review
A Daughter of Fair Verona (Daughter of Montague)
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Rosie is the first-born child of Romeo and Juliet, delivered nine months after Juliet failed to stab herself to death (stabbing a gold ...Read Review
Wolves of Winter
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The Hundred Years’ War garnered the kings of England a crop of astonishing victories, but they never seemed decisive, and the war dragged ...Read Review
Masquerade
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In the 15th century, nineteen-year-old Òdòdó works with her mother and other older women as a lowly blacksmith helper in Timbuktu. Strikingly ...Read Review
A Good Deliverance
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1468, nearly Pentecost. Sir Thomas Malory, seasoned courtier, is arrested by King Edward’s men whilst enjoying the haven of his sunny Warwickshire garden. ...Read Review
The Importance of Wives: Chronicles of the House of Valois
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This novel tells the story of a courageous woman of the 15th century, Anne of Brittany. In 1488, before her 12th birthday, Anne inherits ...Read Review
The Traitor’s Son
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Richard Plantagenet, later to be crowned as Richard III, grows up in Baynard’s Castle in London. After his father’s attempt to ...Read Review
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain
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As the author says in her note, this is a work of fiction, based on B. A. Windeatt’s translation of The Book ...Read Review
The Slaughter Stone
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Wales, 1389. When William learns of riches buried on an old farmstead once managed by his late father, he seeks tenancy for it. Unfortunately ...Read Review
At the Court of Broken Dreams
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It is 1460, and the young Edward de-la-Pole rides off to fight for the Yorkists—as Beloved Mama has ordered. Beloved Mama has also ...Read Review
