Reviews and Blog Posts: Historical

Isabelle is a lacemaker in a French village outside the palace of Versailles during the time of Marie Antoinette. One day when she is visiting her brother who works as a groom in the palace stables, Isabelle meets the princess Therese and they become friends. Soon Isabelle gets to play...

Seikei is the son of a merchant but he wishes he could be a samurai. In medieval Japan, one cannot change the social class he was born into, so all Seikei can do is dream. When Seikei witnesses suspicious events surrounding a robbery at an inn, he helps the high-ranked...

Jennie Hodgers lived in a time before women were allowed to work, or even wear pants, so when she insisted on doing both, she was an outcast. She pretended to be a man first as a shepherd in Ireland, then as an immigrant farmhand in American, and finally as a...