America's Women by Gail Collins
An excellent gift to any woman in your life. It is a fascinating and often horrifying look at 400 years of the day-to-day lives of women in early America. It will make you grateful to be alive in the year 2023!
Matrix by Lauren Groff
A novel based on the life of a remarkable (and real) medieval French woman, Marie is exiled from court to become a nun and we follow her gripping transformation of the convent she is forced to occupy. You'll want to read Marie de France's Lais when you finish --[PB1] and you should.
No Place for the Weary Kind: Women of the Smokies by Courtney Lix
A collection of biographical essays about women from the Smokies. The women you'd expect to be there are, but I really enjoyed discovering some amazing characters I'd never heard of.
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