Hello Kathy!
 
Thank you for using #DPLWhatsnext! I have found some recommendations for you in Historical Fiction,  with strong female characters. I hope you enjoy these selections, and please let me know what you think.
 
British Historical Fiction - Strong Female Characters
Three sisters, three queens
by Philippa Gregory

Brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, Katherine of Aragon forges a unique sisterhood with the king's sisters, Margaret and Mary, that is shaped by rivalries, wars, betrayal, widowhood, motherhood, passion and secrets. By the best-selling author of The Other Boleyn Girl.
WWII Historical Fiction - Strong Female Characters. 
Lilac girls : a novel
by Martha Hall Kelly

The lives of three women converge at the Ravensbrück concentration camp as one resolves to help from her post at the French consulate, one becomes a courier in the Polish resistance, and one takes a German government medical position.
 
Happy reading! 
 
Colleen 
 
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