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The first anthology from the WFWA affinity group HistFict Writers offers twenty-three stories for bedtime reading. This collection — co-edited by Kay Smith-Blum, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Elaine Aucoin Schroller, Kimberly Sullivan and Christy Matthews — depicts ordinary women—from the 1470s to the 1970s — who meet life’s challenges with fierce determination.
An unhappy housewife in 1950s California gathers the courage to escape an abusive marriage. As local men are shipped off to WWI, a young Yorkshire woman joins others to keep a munitions factory at peak operation. As her land and way of life are threatened, a 19th-century Chickasaw wife and mother rekindles the strength of her ancestors. A midwife strives to protect mothers from accusations of witchcraft. A Victorian portrait artist possesses a rare sought-after talent that dispatches unwanted relatives.
Foreign invaders, rigid domestic authorities, strictures of society and religion, the supernatural and love and family bonds serve as catalysts for the feisty women in these tales.
