Historical Fiction about Real Life Women

Updated June 10, 2026
S
Southern Maryland Regional Library Southern Maryland Regional Library
This is your list in printable form. Simply print this page using your browser's print command.

Historical Fiction about Real Life Women

Drag items up and down to your preferred order then select the "Save Order" button.
White houses
Bloom, Amy
Paper Book
Hidden love in the White House in 1930s and 1940s America, from a master storyteller at the height of her powers.
By her own design : a novel of Ann Lowe, fashion designer to the social register
Huguley, Piper
Ebook
The incredible untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves, rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America's most famous wedding dresses of all time for Jackie Kennedy. 1953, New York City Less than a week...
The Mademoiselle Alliance
Lester, Natasha
Paper Book
The only woman in the room
Benedict, Marie
Paper Book
She possessed a stunning beauty. She also possessed a stunning mind. Could the world handle both? Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third...
Malinalli
Chapa, Veronica
Paper Book
Book Riot's Best New Book Releases A 2025 Latino Book Award Winner, Gold Medal for Best Novel -- Historical Fiction -- English "A vivid and unprecedented journey into the Spanish invasion of Aztec Mexico." --Luis Alberto Urrea, acclaimed...
Sister mother warrior : a novel
Riley, Vanessa
Paper Book
ONE OF USA TODAY'S "BEST BOOKS OF SUMMER!" Acclaimed author of Island Queen Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West...
Diva
Goodwin, Daisy
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest men in the world. In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas was...
The Chanel sisters
Little, Judithe
Paper Book
Learned by heart
Donoghue, Emma
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder, this novel is based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York. "A wrenching love story." --Chris Bohjalian, The...
The woman with the cure
Cullen, Lynn
Paper Book
"Huge applause...women havealwaysbeen in science-despite those who would pretend otherwise." --Bonnie Garmus, New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry She gave up everything - and changed the world. A riveting novel based on...
Someone always nearby : a novel of Georgia O'Keeffe and Maria Chabot
Albert, Susan Wittig
Paper Book
In 1940, art-world icon Georgia O'Keeffe bought a house in a mountain-rimmed New Mexico desert, planning to live there for six months every year. To manage her remote household while she paints, O'Keeffe invited Maria Chabot-a young and naïve would-be writer-to join her. &...
Find this list online

https://librarian.syndetics.com/syndeticsunbound/lp/1043.1411/list/8116

Library staff! You can create and contribute to lists. Contact your catalog administrator or log in here.