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Place of Setting	Author	Title	Notes
Australia	Birch, Carol	Scapegallows	1700’s — woman who escaped hanging in London remakes her life in Australia
Canada	Daniel, Danielle	Daughters of the Deer	1600’s — based on the author’s Algonquin and French-Canadian ancestors
Chile	Allende, Isabel	Ines of My Soul	Based on the life of a foremother of Chile
England	Brackston, Paula	The Witch’s Daughter	A witch’s life from the 1600’s to the present.
England	Brooks, Geraldine	Year of Wonders	Plague epidemic of 1665-1666
England	Donoghue, Emma	Life Mask	1700’s — actress and woman sculptor
England	Dunn, Suzannah	The Lady of Misrule	1500’s — based on the life of Lady Jane Grey
England	Dutton, Danielle	Margaret the First	1600’s — based on the life of writer Margaret Cavendish
England	George, Margaret	Elizabeth I	1500’s — based on the life of Queen Elizabeth I
England	Gregory, Philippa	The Other Boleyn Girl	1500’s — based on the life of Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn
England	Hadlow, Janice	The Other Bennet Sister	Retelling of Pride and Prejudice from Mary’s POV
England	Halliburton, Rachel	The Optickal Illusion	The struggles of women artists in the 18th century
England	Lewis, Hilda	I Am Mary Tudor	1500’s — based on the life of Queen Mary I
England	Noyes, Deborah	Angel and Apostle	1600’s – the story of Pearl, the child of Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter
England	Sharratt, Mary	Daughters of the Witching Hill	Inspired by the 1612 Pendle witch trials
England and Italy	Sharratt, Mary	The Dark Lady’s Mask	1500’s – based on the life of Aemilia Bassano Lanier, Italian writer friend of Shakespeare
England	Sherwood, Frances	Vindication	1700’s – based on the life of Mary Wollstonecraft
England	Waldherr, Kris	Unnatural Creatures	1700’s – imagined lives of the women around Frankenstein
France	Chen, Katherine	Joan	Based on the life of Joan of Arc
France	Cowan, Lissa	Milk Fever	Fantastical story of a wet nurse as told by a peasant woman on the eve of the French Revolution
France	Cutter, Kimberly	The Maid	Based on the life of Joan of Arc in the 1400’s
France	Gardiner, Kelly	Goddess	1600’s – based on the life of Julie d’Aubigny, a swordswoman and opera singer
France	Lewis, Janet	The Wife of Martin Guerre	1500’s – a woman suspects and then formally accuses her husband of being an imposter
France	Marcantel, Pamela	An Army of Angels	Based on the life of Joan of Arc in the 1400’s
France	Naslund, Sena Jeter	The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman	1700’s – based on the life of artist Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun
France and Haiti	Sivak, Zoe	Mademoiselle Revolution	1700’s – French Revolution through eyes of a biracial woman
Ghana and U.S.	Gyasi, Yaa	Homegoing	1700’s to present – two half-sisters and their descendants
Holland	Chevalier, Tracy	Girl with a Pearl Earring	1660’s — the household of painter Johannes Vermeer as seen through the eyes of a 16-year-old servant
India	Kirchner, Bharti	Goddess of Fire	1600’s – a young widow remakes her life
India	Sundaresan, Indu	The Twentieth Wife	1600’s – based on the life of Empress Mehrunissa
Iran	Amirrezvani, Anita	The Blood of Flowers	1600’s — rug maker seeks to escape poverty
Iran	Amirrezvani, Anita	Equal of the Sun	1500’s — based on the life of Princess Khan Khanoom
Ireland	Thompson, Helen Smith	When Strength Prevails	1700’s — struggles of a young woman as Protestants take over northern Ireland
Italy	Bellonci, Maria	Private Renaissance	1400’s – based on the life of Isabella d’Este, Duchess of Mantua
Italy	Dunant, Sarah	In the Company of the Courtesan	1500’s – adventures of a courtesan in Venice
Italy	Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans)	Romola	1400’s and 1500’s — a young woman married to an evil man must find a way to stay true to herself
Italy	O’Farrell, Maggie	The Marriage Portrait	1500’s — duchess whose life is in danger
Italy	O’Melveny, Regina	The Book of Madness and Cures	1500’s – a woman physician from Venice goes on a quest to find her father
Italy	Vreeland, Susan	The Passion of Artemisia	1600’s – based on the life of painter Artemisia Gentileschi
Korea	Drabble, Margaret	The Red Queen	Memoirs of a Korean princess in the late 1700’s
Korea	Hur, June	The Red Palace	Palace nurse turns detective in 1700’s
North America	Boyd, Natasha	The Indigo Girl	Based on the life of Eliza Lucas, founder of indigo cultivation in US
North America	Chance, Megan	Susannah Morrow	The Salem witch trials
North America	Chase-Riboud, Barbara	Sally Hemings	Late 1700’s and early 1800’s — slave mistress of Thomas Jefferson
North America	Deane, Pamala-Suzette	My Story Being This	The fictional diary of a free black woman on the eve of the Revolutionary War
North America	Larsen, Deborah	The White	1700’s – based on the life of Mary Jemison, who was captured and adopted by Seneca Indians
North America	Morrison, Toni	A Mercy	1600’s – the beginning of slavery told through the eyes of four women
North America	Seton, Anya	The Winthrop Woman	1600’s – a nonconformist English woman in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
North America	Sosin, Danielle	The Long-Shining Waters	Three women from three different eras (1600’s to the present) living near Lake Superior
North America	Williams, Sheila	Things Past Telling	An enslaved woman’s life from Nigeria to Virginia
Norway	Hargrave, Kiran Millwood	The Mercies	Women in Arctic town accused of witchcraft
Polynesia	Coleman, Clare	Daughter of the Reef	Tahiti before the arrival of Europeans
Russia	Reyn, Irina	The Imperial Wife	Based on the life of Catherine the Great
Russia	Stachniak, Eva	The Winter Palace	Based on the life of Catherine the Great
Scotland	Gabaldon, Diana	Outlander	20th century woman transported to 1743
Suriname	McLeod, Cynthia	The Free Negress Elisabeth	1700’s – based on the life of Elisabeth Samson
West Indies (Barbados) and North America	Conde, Maryse	I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem	The black slave Tituba accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials of 1692
West Indies (Haiti)	Trouillot, Evelyne	The Infamous Rosalie	Slave rebellion