Historical Women Unlisted

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  1. The minister's daughter by 

    4 stars

    In 1645 in England, the daughters of the town minister successfully accuse a local healer and her granddaughter of witchcraft …

  2. The Red Tent by 

    4 stars

    In the Bible, Dinah's life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters …

  3. The night watch by 

    4 stars

    A novel of relationships set in 1940s London that brims with vivid historical detail, thrilling coincidences, and psychological complexity, by …

  4. Beloved by 

    4 stars

    Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War, it tells the …

  5. The Blind Assassin by 

    4 stars

    More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an extraordinary and compelling story …

  6. Women fly when men aren't watching by  (Virago new fiction)

    5 stars

  7. Impossible saints by  (A Harvest book)

    4 stars

    A novel on our civilization's earliest liberated women, female saints. The heroine is St. Josephine, a not-so-saintly noblewoman who becomes …

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