books by subject
Women's Biographies

Facing the Music: The Autobiography

Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-century Lives

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Girl, Interrupted

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

Doctors: Vintage Books Edition: The Biography of Medicine

The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family

Helen Keller: Courage in the Dark

The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult

The Million Dollar Mermaid: An Autobiography

Desert Blooms: A Personal Adventure in Growing Old Creatively

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

Emma Hamilton

Freya Stark: Passionate Nomad

Unveiled: Nuns Talking

Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life

Virginia Woolf

Gwen John

Precious Lives

Artemisia: The Story of a Battle for Greatness

Good Wives?

Sky Burial

A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-life Adventures in Sex and Romance

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer

Blood, Bones and Butter: The inadvertent education of a reluctant chef: A French Culinary Education

The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography

The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women's Lives

My Life in Houses

Whisperings in the Blood
