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Place of Setting	Author	Title	Notes
England	Bracewell, Patricia	Shadow on the Crown	1000’s — Queen Emma
England	Holland, Cecelia	The Secret Eleanor	Eleanor of Aquitaine and her sister Petronilla in 1151-1152
England	McGrath, Carol	The Handfasted Wife	1000’s – based on the life of Edith Swan-Neck
England	Seton, Anya	Katherine	1300’s — based on the life of Katherine Swynford, an ancestor of British royalty
England	Warner, Sylvia Townsend	The Corner That Held Them	1300’s — Benedictine Nuns
England	Willis, Connie	Doomsday Book	1300’s — time-travel, science fiction, historical fiction
France	Anton, Maggie	Rashi’s Daughters, Book I: Joheved	Late 1000’s — a Jewish scholar educated his daughters when women were forbidden to study holy texts
France	Avery, Fiona	The Crown Rose	1240 — based on the life of Isabelle of France
France	Cokal, Susann	Mirabilis	A wet nurse in the 1300’s could save her town from starvation.
France	Novik, Mary	Muse	1300’s – the story of Petrarch’s scribe and lover
France	Stielstra, Julie	Pilgrim	1200’s – mother and daughter on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
Germany	Sharratt, Mary	Illuminations	1100’s — based on the life of Hildegard of Bingen
Ireland	Morgan, Robin	The Burning Time	1300’s — women who fought Inquisition
Italy	Holland, Cecelia	Great Maria	1000’s – daughter of a robber baron
Japan	Dalby, Liza	The Tale of Murasaki	Based on the life of Murasaki Shikibu, author of The Tale of Genji in the 11th century
North America (Alaska)	Wallis, Velma	Two Old Women	Based on an Athabaskan Indian legend, this story takes place before Europeans arrived in North America
North America (Indigenous Tribes)	Shuler, Linda Lay	She Who Remembers	1200’s – the daughter of a Pueblo Indian woman and a Viking invader is exiled from her tribe
North America (Indigenous Tribes)	Spinka, Penina Keen	Picture Maker	1300’s – adventures of a young woman who can foretell the future through drawings
Norway	Undset, Sigrid	Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath	1300’s – coming-of-age novel. Author won the Nobel Prize.
Persia (Iran)	Levy Mossanen, Dora	Harem	1300’s – three generations of Jewish women in Persia
Scotland	Kaufman, Pamela	Shield of Three Lions	1100’s — woman disguises herself as a boy
Scotland	King, Susan Fraser	Lady Macbeth	1000’s — Lady Macbeth re-imagined