Review: Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier is based on the life of Mary Anning, an early 19th century fossil hunter, collector, and paleontologist (although without a formal education.) I first […]
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Review: One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus is an alt-history novel, of sorts, in which the US government agreed to the true to life request of the Cheyenne tribe to […]
Review: Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
Long after the slave trade had ended, slavers and merchants would still travel to the West coast of Africa to illegally purchase new “property,” while at the same time avoiding […]
Review: The Tubman Command by Elizabeth Cobbs
The Tubman Command by Elizabeth Cobbs tells the true story of Harriet Tubman’s instrumental involvement in the Combahee River raid which resulted in freeing about 750 enslaved people from […]
Review: Whiskey When We’re Dry by John Larison
Whiskey When We’re Dry by John Larison is a Western you know, as well as the Western you don’t. That’s namely due to Whiskey’s main character, Jessilyn. The story is […]
Review: Becoming Belle by Nuala O’ Connor
Becoming Belle by Nuala O’ Connor is a Victorian-set novel about a women ahead of her time. Isabel Maude Penrice Bilton did indeed becoming “Belle,” a modern woman […]
Review: Women of the Blue & Gray by Marianne Monson
Women of the Blue and Gray tells the true stories of women on both sides of the Civil War who defied gender norms and were social pioneers despite the […]
