The Lady in the Tower
10 best books like The Lady in the Tower (Marie-Louise Jensen): In the Shadow of the Lamp, I am Rembrandt's Daughter, The Morning Gift, I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend, Lady Macbeth's Daughter, The Queen's Daughter, A Golden Web, Belle's Song, Whisper My Name, The Rogue's Princess
| Author | Susanne Dunlap |
| ISBN | 1599905655 |
It's 1854 and sixteen-year-old Molly would give anything to change her circumstances as a lowly servant in a posh London house. So when she hears of an opportunity to join the nurses who will be traveling with Florence Nightingale to the Crimea, she jumps at the chance. The work is grueling, the hospital...
| Author | Lynn Cullen |
| ISBN | 1599900467 |
With her mother dead of the plague, and her beloved brother newly married and moved away, Cornelia van Rijn finds herself without a friend or confidante--save her difficult father. Out of favor with Amsterdam's elite, and considered brash and unreasonable by his patrons, Rembrandt van Rijn, once...
| Author | Eva Ibbotson |
| ISBN | 0142409111 |
After reading the above blurb about the book, I was excited to dive in. Oh yes, this seemed to fit neatly into my preferred genre! I couldn’t tell if it was going to be more romance-ish or historical-fiction-y, but I figured either way I was set.
Imagine my surprise, then, when I really found...
I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend
| Author | Cora Harrison |
| ISBN | 0385739400 |
When shy Jenny Cooper goes to stay with her cousin Jane Austen, she knows nothing of the world of beautiful dresses, dances, secrets, gossip, and romance that Jane inhabits. At fifteen, Jane is already a sharp observer of the customs of courtship. So when Jenny falls utterly in love with Captain Thomas...
| Author | Lisa M. Klein |
| ISBN | 1599903474 |
The daughter Macbeth might have had, if Shakespeare had thought to create her
Albia has grown up with no knowledge of her mother or her father, the powerful Macbeth. Instead she knows the dark lure of the Wychelm Wood and the moors, where she's been raised by three strange sisters. It's only when the...
| Author | Susan Coventry |
| ISBN | 0805089926 |
Joan's mother is Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, the most beautiful woman in the world. Her father is Henry II, the king of England and a renowned military leader. She loves them both, so what is she to do when she's forced to choose between them? As her parents' arguments grow ever more vicious, Joan begins...
| Author | Barbara Quick |
| ISBN | 0061448877 |
Alessandra is desperate to escape.
Desperate to escape her stepmother, who's locked her away for a year; to escape the cloister that awaits her and the marriage plans that have been made for her; to escape the expectations that limit her and every other girl in fourteenth-century Italy. There's...
| Author | K.M. Grant |
| ISBN | 1849164088 |
Belle's Song is one of the oddest young adult books I have attempted to read all year because of the issues presented in it. I felt like this author combined modern-day issues with a Medieval setting. Twas quite strange and rather disappointing. I really wanted to read the tale of a journey to Canterbury,...
| Author | Jane Eagland |
| ISBN | 0330511394 |
Since she was twelve, Meriel Garland has lived with her grandfather in London, exiled from her beloved India following the death of her mother. Now sixteen, Meriel chafes against the strict regime of tests and study that her grandfather imposes on her. Escaping, she discovers a world outside her narrow...
| Author | Eve Edwards |
| ISBN | 0141337346 |
I really loved the first two books, The Other Countess and The Queen’s Lady, so I fully expected to feel the same way about The Rogue’s Princess. And I did!
Of all of the Lacey brothers we’ve heard from so far, I think that Kit may be my favourite. I thought that it would take a lot to knock kind...
| Author | Mary Hooper |
| ISBN | 1582348545 |
Ousted from her family by her new stepmother, Eliza Rose makes her way to London--only to be thrown straight into prison for stealing a bite to eat. Her life takes a remarkable twist when she is rescued and befriended by the infamous actress Nelly Gwyn. Nelly introduces her to the courtly intrigue, politics,...
| Author | Ann Turnbull |
| ISBN | 0763631906 |
A young Quaker girl and the son of a wealthy merchant face intolerance and persecution in this gripping historical novel that evokes the passion and idealism of young love.
"Don't cry. We won't be parted. I promise."
It is 1662, and England is reeling from the aftereffects of civil...
| Author | Jacqueline Kolosov |
| ISBN | 1423112458 |
Sixteen-year old Miranda has no idea how much her life is going to change upon hearing the news of her father's death. Left with little dowry to offer, Miranda faces a broken engagement, and is sent to live with her father's cousin, the Count John Hardwood, and his wife whose primary goal is to take her to...
| Author | Theresa Breslin |
| ISBN | 0385617054 |
As lady-in-waiting to Mary, Queen of Scots, the beautiful Ginette—known as Jenny—is the young queen’s closest childhood friend. Growing up in the elegant but ruthless French court, surrounded by enemies and traitors—not least the jealous, manipulative Catherine de Medici, and Mary’s...
| Author | Karen Wallace |
| ISBN | 1416917160 |
Emerald St. John is in trouble. She has been condemned to marry a man she hates, her enemies are conspiring to have her pet bear Molly torn apart in the baiting pits, and the man she loves is far away on the high seas. And she has stumbled into a web of spies with a plot to poison Queen Elizabeth I. To save herself...
| Author | Carol Dines |
| ISBN | 0152054774 |
Seventeen-year-old Angelica Voglia has the voice of an angel. But in seventeenth-century Rome, the pope has forbidden women to sing in public. To make matters worse, her controlling mother is determined to marry her off to a wealthy nobleman, even though Angelica is in love with a poor French artist....
| Author | Laura L. Sullivan |
| ISBN | 0547581297 |
Eliza dreams of being a playwright for the king’s theater, where she will be admired for her witty turns of phrase rather than her father’s wealth.
Beth is beautiful as the day but poor as a church mouse, so she must marry well, despite her love for her childhood sweetheart.
Zabby...
The Fall of the Blade: A Girl's French Revolution Diary 1792-1794
| Author | Sue Reid |
| ISBN | 1407111183 |
As typical of a My Story book, this was rather educational. Set in the 1790's during the French Revolution, it was really interesting to see how a young teenager managed to survive, and the struggles and hardships they had to endure. Makes me feel really lucky to live in today's society, with a safe home...
