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Place of Setting	Author	Title	Notes
Algeria	Djebar, Assia	Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade	1830 to 1950: a young woman joins her brother to fight against French colonialism
Australia	Fairbairns, Zoe	Stand We at Last	Family saga of five generations of women and three continents
Australia	Kent, Hannah	Devotion	Two friends emigrate from Prussia to Australia
Austria-Hungary	Pataki, Allison	Sisi: Empress on Her Own	Based on the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph
Balkans	Stankova, Reni	Sirma	Woman disguises herself as a man to fight the Ottoman Empire.
Brazil	Williams, Jeanne	So Many Kingdoms	The history of Brazil through the eyes of six women
Canada	Atwood, Margaret	Alias Grace	In 1843 a servant girl is accused of murder
Canada	Sutherland, Rose	A Sweet Sting of Salt	Based on the folktale “The Selkie Wife.” Takes place in Nova Scotia.
China	Buck, Pearl S.	Imperial Woman	Based on the life of Empress Tzu-Hsi
China	Buck, Pearl S.	Peony	Chinese maid to Jewish family in China
China	Curry, Alexandra	The Courtesan	Orphan becomes courtesan and travels to the west
China	McCunn, Ruthanne Lum	The Moon Pearl	Women silkworkers in 1830’s
China	See, Lisa	Snow Flower and the Secret Fan	Two women bond by writing in Nushu, the Chinese women’s language
China	Min, Anchee	Empress Orchid	Based on the life of the last Empress of China
Egypt	Shomer, Enid	The Twelve Rooms of the Nile	1850’s — the imagined story of a meeting between Florence Nightingale and Gustav Flaubert in Egypt as young adults
England	Baker, Jo	Longbourn	Pride and Prejudice re-told from the POV of the servants
England	Benjamin, Melanie	Alice I Have Been	Based on the life of Alice Lidell, who inspired Alice in Wonderland
England	Brown, Carrie	The Stargazer’s Sister	Based on the life of Caroline Herschel
England	Chevalier, Tracy	Remarkable Creatures	Women fossil hunters
England	Collins, Sara	The Confessions of Frannie Langton	Jamaican woman may have murdered her employers
England	Duncker, Patricia	The Doctor	Based on the life of James Miranda Barry, a woman who practiced medicine disguised as a man.
England	Holman, Sheri	The Dress Lodger	A poor young mother makes a daring pact with a doctor to save her infant son
England	Kohler, Sheila	Becoming Jane Eyre	Based on the life of Charlotte Bronte
England	Martin, Valerie	Mary Reilly	Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde from the POV of the maid.
England	Natel, Lilian	The Singing Fire	Jewish immigrants
England	Pritchard, Melissa	Flight of the Wild Swan	Based on the life of Florence Nightingale
England	Silko, Leslie Marmon	Gardens in the Dunes	Native American girl in England
England	Smith, Dinitia	The Honeymoon	Based on the life of author George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
England	Waters, Sarah	Affinity	Woman prison visitor becomes fascinated by inmate
England	Waters, Sarah	Fingersmith	Child of thieves becomes involved in a scam
England	Waters, Sarah	Tipping the Velvet	Young working-class woman becomes enamored of a woman performing as a man
England and United States	Donnelly, Jennifer	The Tea Rose	Working class London woman flees tragedy to New York City
Finland	Pylvainen, Hanna	The End of Drum-Time	Daughter of minister falls in love with reindeer herder
France	Berg, Elizabeth	The Dream Lover	Based on the life of George Sand (Aurore Dupin)
France	Buchanan, Cathy Marie	The Painted Girls	Based on the lives of women who modeled for Edgar Degas
France	Burdick, Serena	Girl in the Afternoon	A young woman seeks to become an artist
France	DeSanti, Carole	The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R.	A poor woman who gave up her daughter tries to find her again
France	Drudge, Drema	Victorine	Based on the life of Victorine Meurent, an art model and painter in 1860s Paris.
France	Felt, Elizabeth Caulfield	Syncopation: A Memoir of Adele Hugo	A novel in the form of a “memoir” of the daughter of Victor Hugo
France	Horan, Nancy	Under the Wide and Starry Sky	The relationship of Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne and Robert Louis Stevenson
France	King, Joan	Impressionist	Based on the life of painter Mary Cassatt
France	Mahoney, Cheryl	Nocturne (The Guardian of the Opera)	Phantom of the Opera from a woman’s POV
France	Robards, Elizabeth	With Violets	Based on the life of painter Berthe Morisot
Ghana	Attah, Ayesha Harruna	The Hundred Wells of Salaga	Lives of a village girl and princess intersect
Hawaii	Davenport, Kiana	Shark Dialogues	The story of Hawaii from the 1800’s to the 1900’s
Iceland	Kent, Hannah	Burial Rites	A woman accused of murder is sent to work on a remote farm
India	Moran, Michelle	Rebel Queen	Based on the life of Lakshmi, Rani (Queen) of Jhansi
India	Mukherjee, Bharati	The Tree Bride	A woman “married” to a tree joins the Indian freedom movement
Ireland	Kidd, Jess	Things in Jars	Woman detective and magical realism
Isle of Man	Elphinstone, Margaret	Light	Two women lighthouse keepers must fight for their livelihood
Israel and Ukraine	Herzfeld, Smadar	Trail of Miracles	A Jewish woman reflects on her life
Italy	Hornby, Simonetta Agnello	The Nun	A young woman is conflicted between life as a nun and life in the world
Italy	Olmi, Veronique	Bakhita	Slave girl from Sudan becomes Catholic saint
Italy	Scego, Igiaba	The Color Line	Black American artist in Rome
Jamaica	Levy, Andrea	The Long Song	The end of slavery told through the eyes of a slave girl
Jamaica	Rhys, Jean	Wide Sargasso Sea	1830s – the story of Antoinette Cosway, the “madwoman in the attic,” wife of Edward Rochester, Jane Eyre’s lover
Japan	Avery, Ellis	The Teahouse Fire	An American orphan is adopted by a Japanese family
Korea	Shin, Kyung-Sook	The Court Dancer	Relationship of court dancer with a Frenchman
Liberia	Moore, Wayetu	She Would Be King	The founding of Liberia