Madeline Miller spent over a decade writing The Song of Achilles – a fantasy romance retelling of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad ...

Here are a few best-selling writers of the 19th century — with links to books — that may be new to you: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911).Renowned as a poet and a novelist, Harper, born ...

Though she’s dressed in an opulent, fur-trimmed gown in a palatial French home sometime in the mid-19th century, her silent fury is recognizable to women the world over who’ve contained their ...

Books featuring coded romances between women, such as Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla and Henry James' The Bostonians, have been popular since the late 19th century, a time when women could ...

Works like Tissot's The Convalescent (1872), pictured here, reflect a sense of unease over a modernizing society that was sweeping women up in its fray. Art Gallery of Ontario. Gift of R.B.F. Barr ...

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century Massachusetts.