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A Month of Reading Women’s History
My reading of history this month has been more about “It’s Women’s History Month” than “I’m researching for one specific writing project.” So… it’s a mix that might come across as random.
History books I’ve read cover to cover this month:
The Women of the Cousin’s War (2011) by Philippa Gregory, Michael Jones, and David Baldwin. This is a history of royal women from fifteenth-century England. This was for a book discussion group, and I didn’t choose it. It brought home that I’m not a fan of fifteenth-century England.
Mad & Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency (2020) by Bea Koch. This is a fun and light history book about a diverse assortment of women from Regency England. As someone who writes dark fantasy set in an alternative Regency England, I see this as writing research (besides a fun book).
Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism (2022) by Joanna Scutts. This is mostly 1910 to 1922 and is a delightful history of feminist activists associated with a feminist club called Heterodoxy, who met in Greenwich Village from the 1910s to about 1940. It’s suitable for my suffrage history bookcases (and yes, I have two bookcases dedicated to suffrage history).
Comics for Choice: Illustrated Abortion Stories, History, and Politics [I compulsively…