Civil War Novels Featuring Women
Many Civil War novels feature women as heroines: women in the ranks, women as love interests of men in the ranks, women as the emblem and backbone of the homefront, women making their way out of slavery. The novels listed below feature women in substantial central roles.
- Baker, Kevin. Paradise Alley. 2002.
- Ballard, Allen B. Where I'm Bound. 2000.
- Bass, Cynthia. Sherman's March. 1994.
- Brenaman, Miriam. Evvy's Civil War. 2002.
- Brooks, Geraldine. March. 2005.
- Brown, Rita Mae. High Hearts. 1986.
- Davis, Rebecca Harding. Waiting for the Verdict. 1868.
- De Forest, John W. Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty. 1867.
- Denenberg, Barry. When Will This Cruel War Be Over?. 1996.
- Durrant, Lynda. My Last Skirt. 2006.
- Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain. 1997.
- Gibbons, Kaye. On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon. 1998.
- Gylanders, S.C. The Better Angels of Our Nature. 2006.
- Hamit, Francis. The Shenandoah Spy. 2008.
- Hesse, Karen. A Light in the Storm. 1999.
- Hicks, Robert. The Widow of the South. 2005.
- Humphreys, Josephine. Nowhere Else on Earth. 2000.
- James, Jessica. Shades of Gray. 2008.
- Jiles, Paulette. Enemy Women. 2002.
- Keehn, Sally M. Anna Sunday. 2002.
- Lunn, Janet. The Root Cellar. 1981.
- Matas, Carol. The War Within. 2001.
- Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. 1936.
- Nixon, Joan Lowery. Keeping Secrets. 1995.
- Paulsen, Gary. Sarny. 1997.
- Peck, Richard. The River Between Us. 2003.
- Porter, Connie. Meet Addy. 1993.
- Randall, Alice. The Wind Done Gone. 2001.
- Ruiz de Burton, María Amparo. Who Would Have Thought It? 1872.
- Scott, Joanna Catherine. The Road from Chapel Hill. 2006.
- Walker, Margaret. Jubilee. 1966.
- Wells, Rosemary. Red Moon at Sharpsburg. 2007.