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Jan 30, 2024 · The Best Female Authors of All Time. 1. Charlotte Brontë, 1816 – 1855. Charlotte Brontë’s oldest manuscript is The Professor. Born in Thornton, West Riding, Yorkshire, Charlotte Brontë started creating poetry at age 13. Her 1847 novel, Jane Eyre, published under the pen name Currer Bell, is her most known work.
by Zadie Smith. It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper — and cousin by marriage — of a once-famous novelist, now in decline. Andrew Bogle, meanwhile, grew up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica. When Bogle finds himself in London, star witness in a celebrated case of imposture, he knows his future depends on telling ...
The Prisoner's Wife is based on a true story of passion, heroism, and a love that transcends overwhelming odds. Inspired by the true story of a daring deception, a young Czech woman is plunged into the horrors of a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp to be with the English soldier she loves. This astonishing story was told to me in a lift by a World War ...
Jul 5, 2023 · Buy on Amazon. 2. Ken Follett - Pillars Of The Earth. Ken Follett is a Welsh author who has written in various genres, including thriller and historical fiction. His best-known work is " The Pillars of the Earth ," an epic historical novel set in 12th-century England. This also has a great TV adaptation by the BBC.
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The Heart of the Mountains (My Heart Belongs in the Blue Ridge #2) by Pepper Basham (Goodreads Author). 4.55 avg rating — 962 ratings
Eleanor of Aquitaine is certainly one of the most formidable women of the Middle Ages; not just because she was queen to two kings, but because she had the courage to openly defy them both. Consequently, I raced to order Coirle Mooney’s first novel in her The Medieval Ladies series, followed quickly by the second, The Cloistered Lady.
