The historical novel can be said to represent one of the most popular narrative genres written in the north-western Iberian language of Galician. How this has played out for women writers who engage with feminist activism merits particular attention, in a demonstration of the key contributions of minority-language writing by women to global debates. Teresa Moure’s Herba moura (2005) and Eva Moreda’s A Veiga é como un tempo distinto (2011) stand as well-known and widely circulating examples of Galician-language women’s historical fiction that reflect distinct ways in which the intersection between gender and social class plays out in transnational narrative. Drawing from feminist scholarship and working-class women’s literary studies, this chapter considers how these two popular Galician-language historical novels reinscribe working-class women’s subjectivities back into historical narrative across the boundaries of time and space, signalling and reimagining overlooked acts of resistance to interlocking forms of oppression by women in service roles. The analysis contrasts Teresa Moure’s depiction of Hélène Jans, a seventeenth-century Dutch maid and botanist who is based on the real-life mistress of philosopher René Descartes, with Eva Moreda’s fictionalised character Elisa, a Galician-Asturian emigrant to London in the ‘Swinging Sixties’ who becomes active in trade unions and the Women’s Liberation Movement.