Women in History Books


The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History Best Price: $11.49 A great book -- I discovered it from my History Book Club, before the great reviews poured in...	A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, c. 1297-1344 Best Price: $10.00 Admittedly I wasn't reading this book for pleasure, as I had to read it for a class, but it is...	Catherine the Great Best Price: $7.51 i hard to believe a little german priness would become the most powerful woman in europe.but...	The Hidden History of Women's Ordination: Female Clergy in the Medieval West Best Price: $15.00 In this time of radical transition more than forty years after Vatican II, nothing could be more...	Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings Best Price: $50.00 During the 18th century a remarkable group of women formed the Bluestocking Salon, where women...



Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman Best Price: $3.54 Sarah Morgan is the real Scarlett O'Hara. As the world as she had known it crumbled to ashes...	Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe Best Price: $1.85 My love of medieval history and soft-spot for popular history made this book a natural for me....	The Power of Style Best Price: $84.64 Great, great book on the diva's of style. I will love and cherish it forever. I also go back...	Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement (Pivotal Moments in American History) Best Price: $13.44 Not an easy read, not entertaining on a Winter's Night (stick to Hot Chocolate) this book is as...	Women Travelers: A Century of Trailblazing Adventures 1850-1950 Best Price: $32.43 I read a review of this book in an Australian newspaper and felt that I just had to have it. ...



Joan of Arc: In her own words Best Price: $1.99 I've begun reading this, along with 3 other books I purchased. It is not a narrative read, and...	Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868 (Library of Southern Civilization) Best Price: $12.50 Like Mary Boykin Chesnut, Kate Stone wrote her diary during the Civil War. They were both...	Jackie Handbook Best Price: $5.82 Jackie O Handbook is a groundbreaking new interpretation of the life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis...	Living My Life (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $10.30 I'm happy with the purchase, just typing on the keyboard in the privacy of my own home,...	Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt (Penguin History) Best Price: $8.62 I found this book easy to read and interesting. I have several Joyce Tyldsley books and I have...

Pistol Packin' Madams: True Stories of Notorious Women of the Old West Best Price: $2.97 Between 1840 and 1870, hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic dreamers embarked on a 2,000-mile...	The Bandit Queen of India: An Indian Woman's Amazing Journey from Peasant to International Legend Best Price: $5.08 Amazing to realize that this kind of stories are real, and that enven though they are terrible,...	Women in Roman Law and Society (Midland Book) Best Price: $13.90	The Lady Was a Gambler: True Stories of Notorious Women of the Old West Best Price: $7.01 I've just finished "The Lady Was a Gambler" and it is a great read! Non-fiction can...	Uppity Women of Ancient Times Best Price: $1.68 Loved the ability of the author to twist the true dramas of these women into what they really...

Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America Best Price: $1.39 This detailed book provides little-known insight on nine women very important to the advancement...	Medieval Women (Canto) Best Price: $4.50 As an Historian, I found Ms. Power's book to be enlightening. She has managed to capture the...	Legends 2: Women Who Changed the World Through the Eyes of Great Women Writers Best Price: $3.92 This book [Legends 2 : Women Who Changed the World through the Eyes of Great Women Writers] of...	Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II Best Price: $4.80 See Women of the Homefront by Pauline E. Parker for first hand accounts of life on the homefront...	Uppity Women of the Renaissance Best Price: $1.75 The idea for this book is wonderful and the research exhausting. However, Ms. Leon tries so...

Poor Women's Lives: Gender, Work, and Poverty in Late-Victorian London Best Price: $37.50	Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, Vol. 2: The Public Years Best Price: $19.95 Professor Charles Capper has put us in his debt for his thorough two-volume biography of...	Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire Best Price: $18.77 This is the first book published in English written solely about the life of Agrippina. FYI the...	After the Apple: Women in the Bible: Women In the Bible - Timeless Stories of Love, Lust, and Longing Best Price: $5.14 I loved this book.It was wonderful,I higly recommend this book to scholars of the Divine...	Women in Ancient Egypt Best Price: $13.31 The author is obviously very learned and has every right to draw conclusions from evidence...

The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O'Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea Best Price: $3.59 The Pirate Queen contains numerous well-researched stories of the many historical and...	The Life of Christina of Markyate (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $8.51 Popular belief holds that during the Middle Ages sex was avoided like the plague --another...	Eva Peron: The Myths of a Woman Best Price: $6.50 Julie M Taylor's well-researched book is not a biography but an anthropological study of the...	Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $10.50 I read Fuller's book together with American Bloomsbury by Susan Cheever. I must say it was one...	Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox 1740-1832 Best Price: $12.49 This case study of a socially and politically prominent family of bluebloods throughout the...

Victorian London's Middle-Class Housewife: What She Did All Day (Contributions in Women's Studies) Best Price: $43.59 I've always been interested in the history of the home, and especially that of ordinary people....	In the Shadow of Revolution Best Price: $97.88 Asked shortly after the revolution about how she viewed the new government, Tatiana Varsher...	The Subjection of Women (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $0.01 I read this book for a graduate Mill seminar in Philosophy. Recommended reading for anyone...	Joan of Arc (Penguin Lives) Best Price: $4.57 La Pucelle is not well served here. This is a pretty mediocre, superficial treatment of Joan's...	The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History Best Price: $8.36 "Sexuality is power," wrote the Marquis de Sade. His virtuous Justine kept to the...

Good-bye, Piccadilly: BRITISH WAR BRIDES IN AMERICA (Statue of Liberty Ellis Island) Best Price: $20.00 Jenel Virden, the author, is my aunt. I have read the book twice. The most enjoyable parts...	A Dangerous Liaison: One Woman's Journey into a World of Aristocracy, Depravity, and Obsession Best Price: $27.98 I have read this book more than once, and do not agree with the one reviewer who states that it...	Women of the Mito Domain: Recollections of Samurai Family Life Best Price: $18.00 This is a very realistic and engaging account of samurai life just before the Meji restoration....	A History of Women in the West, Volume V, Toward a Cultural Identity in the Twentieth Century (History of Women in the West) Best Price: $8.50 Has the worst of times for humanity--this century bloodied by wars and revolutions without...	Uppity Women of Medieval Times Best Price: $0.75 This is a fun quick read, and can easily serve as a springboard for those who find the subject...

Women in Ancient Greece Best Price: $12.99 This is a very insightful overview of women in ancient Greece. It's a good companion to Sarah...	The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women Best Price: $17.00 I very much wanted to love this book because its claims to rescue women and their stories lost...	Five Sisters: The Langhornes of Virginia Best Price: $2.99 I can't agree enough with the articulate, erudite reviewers who rated this book highly. I came...	Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley circle Best Price: $8.10 Janet Todd masterfully reconstructs the story of Mary Wollstonecraft's daughter Fanny, a girl...	Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War Best Price: $19.55 A very compelling angle on a fascinating subject. You don't have to be an acedemic to enjoy this...

Written by Herself: Volume 2: Women's Memoirs From Britain, Africa, Asia and the United States Best Price: $5.98 WBH is a fascinating selection of 20th century women's autobiographies. Any collection pointing...	Woman Rice Planter (Southern Classics Series) Best Price: $13.08	Women, Gender and Enlightenment Best Price: $36.10 Did women have an Enlightenment? Historians have long excluded women from the Enlightenment...	Evita, First Lady: A Biography of Evita Peron Best Price: $2.69 I fell in love last year. With Argentina. Having visited, I wanted to learn more and more. ...	Pioneer Work In Opening The Medical Profession To Women (Classics in Women's Studies) Best Price: $10.54 Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) was the first woman awarded the MD degree in the United States....

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