Books like Certain Women by Madeleine L'Engle

A magical, time‑travel adventure for young readers, A Wrinkle in Time follows Meg and Charles Murry, the children of a missing father who was working on a tesseract. The novel blends science, fantasy, and strong family bonds, and was awarded the Newbery Medal.

A novel about Emma Woodhouse, a young woman's struggles with matchmaking, misplaced pride, and the dangers of meddling in others' lives in 18th-century England.

A young man's journey of self-discovery through the cultivation of a rare rose.

In Madeleine L'Engle’s debut novel, Stella Rogers marries into the aristocratic Renier family and uncovers a world of intrigue, greed, prejudice, and superstition while confronting a battle between good and evil.

Juvenile Clara Walpole climbs out of poverty and violence, seeking independence through relationships with four men—her resentful father, the protective Lowry, the steady Revere, and her son Swan—while grappling with the psychological weight of her ambitions.

In summer 1946, twenty‑year‑old Elizabeth, an apprentice actress at a seaside theatre company, discovers love and heartbreak when she falls for director Kurt Canitz, only to learn he is not what she imagined.

In the Sierra de México, an American family encounters the mixed‑race Mundo community, unraveling secrets of identity, sexuality, and familial truth while exploring the fragile bonds between fathers and daughters.

The illustrious Harte family saga continues as Emma Harte’s great-granddaughter, Evan Hughes, navigates love, loyalty, and a looming family rival while uncovering secrets that reshape her future.

This lively book surveys women writers in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Its selection is vast, historically representative, and original, taking examples from twenty different, relatively unknown authors in all genres of writing, including poetry, fiction, religious works, letters and journals, translation, and books on childcare. It establishes new contexts for the debate about women as writers within the period and suggests potential intertextual connections with works by well-known male authors of the same time. Individual authors and works are given concise introductions, with both modern and historical critical analysis, setting them in a theoretical and historicised context. All texts are made readily accessible through modern spelling and punctuation, on-the-page annotation and headnotes. The substantial, up-to-date bibliography provides a source for further study and research. Suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate literature students studying the Renaissance or taking courses in women's writing, and of related interest to historians of the period.