Six bad girls of historical fiction

At The Barnes & Noble Book Blog Dell Villa tagged six historical novels that feature "rule-breaking, trailblazing, and nearly always scandalous women," including:The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd

Kidd’s latest epic accounts for about 40 years of slavery, oppression, and brutality in the American South, and is told in two distinct voices: that of a slaveholder, real-life historical figure