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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books
  • First Book:
    February 1980
  • Latest Book:
    September 2009
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Book List in Order: 8 titles



  • A COMPELLING NOVEL ABOUT THE DEVASTATING POWER OF MARRIAGE AND THE UNEXPECTED POSSIBILITIES OF LOVE THE BLEEDING HEART Marilyn French struck a devastating chord with her first monumental bestseller. Now, she explores the relationship between one man...



  • A landmark in feminist literature, THE WOMEN'S ROOM is a biting social commentary of a world gone silently haywire. Written in the 1970s but with profound resonance today, this is a modern allegory that offers piercing insight into the social norms a...



  • A rich and compelling story about four generations of magnificent women, Her Mother's Daughter celebrates the love, pride, sacrifice, devotion, and unheralded triumph of all women's lives. In Frances, Belle, Anastasia, and Arden, Marilyn French ha...



  • "FRENCH'S MOST FOCUSED, DARING, AND POWERFUL NOVEL."
    --New Woman
    Famed presidential advisor Stephen Upton has suffered a stroke, and his four very different daughters gather in his perfectly appointed mansion outside Boston to await his death o...



  • "LUSCIOUS . . . My Summer with George is The Women's Room--1996."
    --The Baltimore Sun

    Hermione Beldame is a women's romance writer who has done quite well for herself. Survivor of four marriages and many affairs, she's not as young as she o...





  • Marilyn French’s seven million copy bestseller The Women’s Room crystallized the issues that ignited the women’s movement. Now the acclaimed author updates that classic with a new exploration of the truths and realities behind women’s lives. ...



  • A girl comes of age in the radical 1960s in this “beautifully written” novel by the groundbreaking author of The Women’s Room (Kate Mosse).   It’s 1968 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Jess Leighton, the daughter of a temperamental painter a...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Marilyn French has published 8 books.

Marilyn French does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Love Children, was published in September 2009.

The first book by Marilyn French, The Bleeding Heart, was published in February 1980.

No. Marilyn French does not write books in series.