In The Paris Affair by Susanne Dunlap, we are introduced to young protagonist Theresa Schurman, a nineteen-year-old sleuth and violinist from Austria. Theresa had recently foiled a plan to assassinate Emperor Joseph II of Austria and thought she would have a break. Unfortunately, the Emperor...

Women in eighteenth-century Paris were subjected to a level of discrimination we’d never accept in the twenty-first century. Adelaide Labille-Guiard was no exception. She married young, but her passion wasn’t her husband; it was rather her painting. This created a volatile relationship, one that she...