Fascinating real-life women, fascinatingly fictionalized

Recent novels about real-life figures make for satisfying reads

If you love learning about fascinating women of the past, but aren’t inclined to read full-scale biographies that take you from the second they were born (or earlier) to the minute they died, another fantastic route into their lives is via novelizations. Rather, these novels often focus on a particularly interesting portion of their lives.

This seems to …