Time Traveling Heroines – Lists & Thoughts

Time traveling heroines are too few in literature. Why are so few women who time travel main characters, and why is this genre so weighted toward men doing the traveling? Even one of my favorite time travel stories, Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife, has him doing the traveling. But I want to read — and to write — stories about women who part the folds of time and history to become heroes, adventurers, and fall in love with someone in the distant past. I just don’t want them to stay there.

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If you’re like me, and you seek time traveling heroines in fiction, there are some lists. Of course, they all need to add my novel The Renaissance Club to these lists of kickass femmes who travel into the far reaches of the space-time continuum. But perhaps soon I will hit all the best lists — the time travel ones.

Lists of Good Time Travel Novels with Strong Women

You can book up your winter reading from these lists alone! If not every book in these lists has a woman as its main, time traveling character, most feature strong women characters.

BookBub’s 13 Books About Women Who Time Travel

BookBub’s 16 Books to Read If You Love The Time Traveler’s Wife

Book Riot: Women Who Time Travel

Kirkus – 7 Recent Time Travel Novels You Should Know About

Why Modern Women Shouldn’t Time Travel

Then there’s the alternate view of time traveling women as anti-heroines, many of whom have little to no sense of self-preservation. I have to say, my book should NOT be on this list, as my heroine May Gold has a healthy sense of the dangers of remaining in the past.

The Toast: Women Who Have Gone Back in Time

My character has to figure out what to do about the love of her life being in a past century that was a pretty brutal time for women. Staying in the 17th century is out of the question. But what other choice does she have? She gives him up, of course, with a parting gift she hopes might change his timeline and history. But if I say more, it might spoil the ending.

 

 

 

 

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