By Josi Kilpack
Shadow Mountain, 2017. 336 pages. Historical Fiction
Resolving to pursue her literary life and retain her identity after marrying the supportive, deeply religious Calvin Stowe, Harriet Beecher is overwhelmed by a pregnancy while her husband travels in Europe, a situation that makes her question her place in her husband's heart.
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By Jennifer Chiaverini
Dutton, 2013. 356 pages. Historical Fiction
Chosen as the personal modiste for Mary Todd Lincoln, freedwoman Elizabeth Keckley is drawn into the intimate life of the Lincoln family as she supports Mary in the loss of her husband from the assassination that stunned the nation and the world.
By Sue Monk Kidd
Viking Adult, 2014. 384 pages. Historical Fiction
Traces more than three decades in the lives of a wealthy Charleston debutante who longs to break free from the strictures of her household and pursue a meaningful life; and the urban slave, Handful, who is placed in her charge as a child before finding courage and a sense of self.
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