Category: Historical Fiction

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Despised And Rejected (Gay Modern Classics) by A.T. Fitzroy; Rose Laure Allatini

Despised And Rejected (Gay Modern Classics) | A.T. Fitzroy; Rose Laure Allatini | This novel, written by Rose Allatini under the pseudonym A.T. Fitzroy, is a landmark in gay and lesbian literature, and in the literature of pacifism.

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A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford

A Compass Error | Sybille Bedford | In this sequel to The Favourite of the Gods, seventeen-year-old Flavia, on her own in the south of France in the late 1930s, lives with the confidence

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A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error (NYRB Classics) by Sybille Bedford

A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error (NYRB Classics) | Sybille Bedford | A Favourite of the Gods is the story of two generations of a single family, united by a strong matrilineal bond but divided by the customs of their di

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Matrix by Lauren Groff

Matrix | Lauren Groff | Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France

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Outlawed by North, Anna

North, Anna | Outlawed | In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada’s life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves wor

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The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue | The Pull of the Stars | In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in ‘Donoghue’s best nov

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The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab

V.E. Schwab | The Invisible Life of Addie Larue | In the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab’s gen

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The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue | The Pull of the Stars | From the international bestselling author of Room. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospita

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Her Lady’s Honor by Renée Dahlia

Renée Dahlia | Her Lady’s Honor | The war might be over, but the battle for love has just begun.

When Lady Eleanor “Nell” St. George arrives in Wales after serving as a veteri

Posted in Checklist by Marion Zimmer Bradley Historical Fiction

Poor White by Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson | Poor White | Nothing quite like it has ever been done in America. . . . It is so vivid, so full of insight, so shiningly life-like and glowing, that the book is li