Susan Higginbotham
The Memoir of a Female Soldier: Deborah Sampson’s American Revolution
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Young Robert Shurtlieff does credit to the Continental Army. Acquitting himself well as a soldier, he is eventually invited to join the staff ...Read Review
The Girl from the Papers
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In 1929, Beatrice Carraway seems to be going nowhere. Her glory days on the child beauty pageant circuit are long behind her, the college ...Read Review
The President’s Wife
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In 1915, Edith Galt, a wealthy widow living in Washington, DC, is introduced to Helen Bones, a cousin to President Woodrow Wilson, who is ...Read Review
The Stockwell Letters
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In 1854, the abolitionist movement in the United States had a cause célèbre: Anthony Burns. Having escaped enslavement in Virginia, Burns was ...Read Review
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
Little Writer (Marmee’s Girls)
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In Little Writer, a retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 classic Little Women from Jo March’s first-person vantage, author Marina Hill reimagines ...Read Review
The House Is on Fire
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On December 26, 1811, Richmond, Virginia’s theater burst into flames during a crowded performance, killing nearly a hundred in the audience. In The House ...Read Review
Oblivion
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In Oblivion, Dean de la Motte offers us the perspective of the Brontë sibling from whom the most was expected and by whom ...Read Review
Pauper Auction
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In 1805, Margery Turner, a young widow whose beloved husband has perished in a tragic accident, finds herself standing at a New Hampshire town ...Read Review
The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail
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In The Devil’s Half Acre, journalist Kristen Green takes up the formidable task of telling the story of a woman whose life ...Read Review