Five titles about The Gilded Age’s wild women

Raised in the Midwest, Greer Macallister earned her MFA in creative writing from American University. Her historical novels, including The Magician’s Lie, Girl in Disguise, Woman 99, and The Arctic Fury, have been named Book of the Month, Indie Next, LibraryReads, Target Book Club, and Amazon Best Book of the Month picks and optioned for film and television.

Macallister's newest novel is The Thirteenth Husband.

At The Nerd Daily she tagged five "books starring real-life rebels of" the Gilded Age. One title on the list:

I Always Loved You by Robin Oliveira

Mary Cassatt made a name for herself as an Impressionist painter in Paris, but she was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. Her tenacity and talent helped her succeed in a world that wasn’t always welcoming to woman artists. She never married nor had children, though her paintings of mothers with children have had the most lasting fame. Oliviera’s novel focuses on Cassatt’s relationship to fellow Impressionist Edgar Degas, depicting a romantic love that may or may not have existed between the two, though historical records show they worked closely together for years and certainly influenced each others’ work.

Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue