Who’s That Lady?: Women’s Historical Fiction and the Experience of Antiquity
18 min readMar 22, 2020
Type the phrase “women’s historical fiction” into Google, and you will be met with a results page numbering approximately 2 million entries, featuring historical fiction set in every conceivable period of history, from ancient Egypt to 1950s America and everything in between. While certain periods seem to always dominate the market — the Tudor era is a…