The Web of Days – Edna Lee

A gothic historical novel about a Yankee governess who goes to work on a decaying plantation during the early Reconstruction period. 1947. Continue reading →

The Feast – Margaret Kennedy

A novel about a group of people at a cliffside hotel on the Cornish coast in the days leading up to the hotel’s destruction. 1949. Continue reading →

Love’s Shadow – Ada Leverson

A comedic novel about a group of genteel London folk and their various hopes and grievances when it comes to love. 1908. Continue reading →

Lucy Carmichael – Margaret Kennedy

A novel about a young woman who, after being jilted at the altar, goes to work at an art institute in a Lincolnshire industrial town, where she meets an eclectic group of people and begins to build a new life for herself. 1951. Continue reading→

The Midwife – Gay Courter

A historical novel about a young Jewish midwife in turn-of-the-century Russia and New York. 1981. Continue reading →

A Fair Barbarian – Frances Hodgson Burnett

A novel about a young American woman who comes to visit her aunt in England, and the effect her unrefined candor has on the conservative inhabitants of the town. 1880. Continue reading →

The River Witch – Marjorie McIntyre

A novel about a head-strong young woman and her life and trials on the Missouri River in the mid-19th century. 1955. Continue reading →

Cimarron – Edna Ferber

A novel about the early settlers of the Oklahoma territory, focusing in particular on an adventure-seeking lawyer/newspaper man, as well as his wife who molds the rugged land into a home. 1929. Continue reading →

Invitation to Folly – Susan Ertz

A novel about a middle-age couple who, in the midst of their own marital problems, take in a widowed relative and her son, both of whom pose a danger to the already fragile household. 1953. Continue reading →

Katherine Wentworth – D. E. Stevenson

A novel about a young widow who struggles to raise her three children wisely, in the face of financial limitations, family interference, and her own possible needs for happiness. 1964. Continue reading →