Here are some titles I’ve read recently and loved:
- Dark Queens by Shelley Puhak
- Embroidering Her Truth by Clare Hunter
- Poet Mystic Widow Wife by Hetta Howes
- Cleopatra by Francine Prose
- Elizabeth’s Women by Tracy Borman
- 1066 by Rebecca Rideal
- Joan of Arc by Helen Castor
- Restoration London by Liza Picard
Any others you can suggest, brainstrust?
by EgonOnTheJob
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Unbound Feet by Judy Yung
A Rome of One’s Own by Emma Southon
When Women Ruled the World by Kara Cooney
Women and China’s Revolutions by Gail Hershatter
Factory Girls by Leslie T Chang
Colonial Habits by Kathryn Burns
The Season by Kristin Richardson
Upcoming: Girl Bandits of Warsaw Ghetto by Elizabeth Hyman
*The Once and Future Sex* by Eleanor Janega is a great read about medieval gender roles.