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Rosa Luxemburg, Charlotte Salomon and Marilyn Monroe are Rose's first focus in this far-sighted and tightly-reasoned exploration of women's lives. Feminism at its most elegant and intelligen... read more

Women in Dark Times

Jacqueline Rose

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The connected lives of Aphra Behn and Lady Henrietta Berkeley in the C17th .

The Scandal of the Century

Lisa Hilton

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A delightful work of literary and domestic history about the effect of living in the countryside on the lives, outlook and work of this trio.

Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warn ...

Harriet Baker

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From the author of excellent books on Catullus, Pliny and Waugh.

The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Wom ...

Daisy Dunn

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Crinolines and bikinis from bedroom to catwalk.

All the Rage: Pleasure, Pain, Power: Stories from the Frontline of Bea ...

Virginia Nicholson

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Drawing on the author's own experiences of WW2, the novel's protagonist rebels against the pressures of family and politics in Fascist Italy. First published in 1949. By the author of Forbid... read more

Her Side of the Story

Alba de C?spedes

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The author has extended her focus from unfortunate Tudor women to look at women's agency from 1066 to the present - and finds it everywhere.

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

Philippa Gregory

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A characteristically particular and original look at social change from the author of the hugely successful Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979 and others.

Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age ...

Ysenda Maxtone Graham

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The shadow chancellor's ideas on future policy and some of the economists that have influenced her.

The Women Who Made Modern Economics

Rachel Reeves

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Born in Victorian Sydney, she was presented at Court to Queen Victoria and then married a Prussian count. The marriage was unhappy, and her subsequent marriage to Bertrand Russell's brother ... read more

The Countess from Kirribilli

Joyce Morgan

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An anthology of the writings by the often overlooked women of the Raj, many of whom flourished in India - Fanny Parks, Emily Eden et alia. A fascinating counterpoint to the stereotypical vie... read more

Memsahibs: British Women in Colonial India

Ipshita Nath

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A deft and powerful retelling of the myth of Medusa - the only mortal born to a family of gods, whose life was upended by Athene's revenge on Poseidon. Haynes' work is always exciting.

Stone Blind: Medusa’s Story

Natalie Haynes

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A compilation of excerpts from Brooks' unpublished memoir that give insights into her life and thoughts as well as her paintings.

Strange Impressions

Romaine Brooks

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The first biography of one of the most important women in C20th British politics; Lady Forkbender - as Private Eye used to call her - was Harold Wilson's political secretary and ran Downing ... read more

Marcia: The Life of Lady Falkender

Linda McDougall

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From the author of The White King, the excellent book on her HM's uxorious husband.

Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen ...

Leanda de Lisle

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My theory and practice is to say yes to life and then I'll see how I manage along the way. Part memoir, part manifesto of a fiercely independent spirit; intelligent and lyrical.

The Soul of a Woman

Isabel Allende

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A group biography of five women at Oxford in the early C20th who pioneered the study of remote communities in Siberia, Egypt, New Mexico and Easter Island. The women were Katherine Routledge... read more

Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology ...

Dr Frances Larson

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A global anthology of poems, novels, memoirs and manifestos.

The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing

Hannah Dawson

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A huge book, from the author of an excellent biography of Eleanor Marx, among others.

Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel

Rachel Holmes

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The author was named by Prospect magazine as one of the 'World's Top 10 Thinkers'.

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

Kate Manne

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SP's robust defence of the nymphs of her native county includes a Protestant martyr and an abolitionist. Further afield, the author of 'The Essex Serpent' sees Kim Kardashian et al as exempl... read more

Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere ...

Sarah Perry

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SOE sent more than 400 agents into France of whom 39 were women. Vigurs traces them all here, not just the well known ones, and sets them in their context.

Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE ...

Kate Vigurs

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