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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Help us create a guide to the best literature and non-fiction written by women. Toni Morrison poses with her 1977 novel "Song of Solomon" on Sept. 21, 2012. By Zipporah Osei ...

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