10 NOVELS SET IN THE GILDED AGE

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As a fan of the Gilded Age, both the historical era and series - books set in the Gilded Age

The Personal Librarian 

Marie Benedict / Victoria Christopher Murray 

Belle de Costa Greene passed as white among the gilded age social elite

The Fifth Avenue Artists Society

Joy Callaway

A young girl from a genteel poor family wants to be a novelist and marry the boy next door.  Which one does she get? 

The Alienist ~ Caleb Carr

Dr. Laszlo Kreizler is an alienist, old timey for psychologist. He faces terrifying murderers aided by journalist John Schuyler Moore and police secretary Sara Howard.  The first two books became a series for TNT

The Most Beautiful Girl In Cuba ~ Chanel Cleeton

Cleeton adds to her Perez family saga with this story of Evangelina Cisneros. Hearst put her picture in his paper to drum up support for war with Spain (to sell more papers) and captioned her "The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba"

The Address ~ Fiona Davis 

The Dakota was a modern marvel of comfort and status.  Blackwell's Island was not.  The two are the background to the story of an immigrant woman and the Dakota is a part of a family's life 100 years later, playing a part in solving an historical mystery

Our Kind of People ~ Carol Wallace

A family tries to break into society and questions what truly matters in life

The Age of Innocence ~ Edith Wharton 

  Opera! Dinner parties!  Repressed love! Gilded age societal shunning!

The Lost Summers of Newport

Beatriz Williams / Lauren Willig / Karen White 

The Ws cubed tell a story of a dollar princess, a dollarless governess, an Italian count and one fateful night (the story also has a 1950s component and a modern component)

The English Wife ~ Lauren Willig

A dead man, his missing wife, rumors, innuendo and a fancy ball

The Engineer's Wife

Tracey Enerson Wood

Emily Roebling and her part in building the Brooklyn Bridge

HONORIFIC TITLES

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BOOKS WITH HONORIFICS IN THE TITLE

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 

Robert Louis Stevenson 

The Island of Dr. Moreau 

H.G. Wells 

Lady Clementine 

Marie Benedict 

Mr. Malcolm's List 

Suzanne Allain

The Talented Mr. Ripley  

Patricia Highsmith 

Goodbye Mr. Chips 

James Hilton 

Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English 

Natasha Solomons

Miss Austen 

Gill Hornby

Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook

Celia Rees

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 

Muriel Spark  

Mrs.Tom Thumb 

Melanie Benjamin 

Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule / Mrs. Lincoln Trilogy 

Jennifer Chiaverini 

Mrs. Poe 

Lynn Cullen 

Dear Mrs. Bird 

AJ Pearce 

Mrs. Miniver 

Jan Struther

BOOKS I WOULD LIKE TO RE-READ / FREQUENTLY RE-READ

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BOOKS I FREQUENTLY RE-READ

Big Stone Gap 

Adriana Trigiani

Everything I Never Told You 

Celeste Ng 

Here On Earth 

Alice Hoffman 

The Magician's Assistant 

Ann Patchett

The Queen's Gambit 

Walter Tevis 

White Oleander

Janet Fitch

BOOKS I WOULD LIKE TO RE-READ 

The Dutch House 

Ann Patchett

The Girls in the Picture

Melanie Benjamin 

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 

V. E. Schwab

Rules For Visiting 

Jessica Kane 

NOVELS ABOUT WOMEN IN THE ART WORLD

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Listed alphabetically by artists' first name

Artemisia Gentileschi

Disobedient ~ Elizabeth Fremantle

Berthe Morisot

The Lost Masterpiece ~ B. A. Shapiro

Camille Claudel

Rodin's Lover ~ Heather Webb

Clara Driscoll

Clara and Mr. Tiffany ~ Susan Vreeland

Dorothea Lange

Learning to See ~ Elise Hooper

Lee Miller

The Age of Light ~ Whitney Sharer

Leonora Carrington

Leonora in the Morning Light ~ Michalea Carter

Mary Cassat

I Have Always Loved You ~ Robin Oliveira

Vanessa Bell

Vanessa and Her Sister ~ Priya Parmar

PATRONESSES OF THE ARTS

Isabella Stewart Gardner

The Lioness of Boston ~ Emily Franklin

Peggy Guggenheim

Peggy ~ Rebecca Godfrey / Leslie Jamison