Category: Feminism
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HESTER by Laurie Lico Albanese
A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England’s witchcraft trials. Who is the real Hester Prynne? A lot of historical facts blended with some imagination give us a look at who Hester may have been. It’s the…
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The SEAMSTRESS of NEW ORLEANS by DIANE C.McPHAIL
Can we take a look at this gorgeous cover? Stunning! It’s 1900 and a new century has dawned and women are making some noise. Fighting for equality in a man’s world. Alice Butterworth knows all of those rules. She also knows she needs to find a job as it looks like her husband is not…
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BLOOMSBURY GIRLS by NATALIE JENNER
The internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society returns with a compelling and heartwarming story of post-war London, a century-old bookstore, and three women determined to find their way in a fast-changing world. The war is over in London and the delightful Evie Stone is back. Having completed her studies at Cambridge she is…
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THE CHANGE by KIRSTEN MILLER
Big Little Lies meets The Witches of Eastwick–a gloriously entertaining and knife-sharp feminist revenge fantasy about three women whose midlife crisis brings unexpected new powers–putting them on a collision course with the evil that lurks in their wealthy beach town. Well, that certainly describes this book! Mattauk is an oceanfront community, where three midlife women are about…
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In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial by Mona Chollet
There are so many books and movies out now that portray witches as evil, worshippers of Satan. I expected this book to compare how women were viewed then and now. And the introduction did some of that. The rest was more of a personal rant about feminism. We know any woman who was troublesome for…
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SUCH A PRETTY SMILE by KRISTI DEMEESTER
I finished this book in one sitting. With the lights on and the doors locked. This is for all the women who don’t want to sit still and look pretty. For the women and girls who have been patronized and marginalized by men. Told by two rather unreliable narrators. Caroline and her daughter Lila. In…
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