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Queen Victoria: Gender and Empire (The World In A Life)

By Kent, Susan Kingsley

An Englishwoman in India: The Memoirs of Harriet Tytler, 1828-58

By Tytler, Harriet, Sattin, Anthony, Mason, Philip

Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers

By Robinson, Jane

Wayward Women: A Guide to Women Travellers

By Robinson, Jane

The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Second Edition by Mary Moorman, Introd H Darbishire.

By Wordsworth, Dorothy, Moorman, Mary, Darbishire, Helen

An Old Woman's Reflections (Oxford Paperbacks)

By Sayers, Peig, Rodgers, W. R., Ennis, Seamus

Destined to be Wives: Sisters of Beatrice Webb (Oxford paperbacks)

By Caine, Barbara

Jane Austen's Letters

By Austen, Jane, Le Faye, Deirdre, Jane Austen

Women of the World: Women Travelers and Explorers (Extraordinary Explorers S.)

By Stefoff, Rebecca

Iqbal (Rollercoasters)

By Francesco D'Adamo

Amelia Earhart: The Pioneering Pilot (What's Their Story?)

By Langley, Andrew, Marks, Alan

Elizabeth I (Very Interesting People)

By Collinson, Patrick

Hannah More: The First Victorian

By Stott, Anne

Mrs Duberly's War: Journal And Letters From The Crimea, 1854-6

By Kelly, Christine

The Life of Charlotte Bront"e (Oxford World's Classics)

By Gaskell, Elizabeth, Easson, Angus

A Woman Doing Life: Notes from a Prison for Women

By George, Erin

Margaret, Daughter of Beatrice: Politician's Psycho-biography of Margaret Thatcher

By Abse, Leo

The Art of Zandra Rhodes

By Rhodes, Zandra, Knight, Anne

The Bronte Myth

By Miller, Lucasta

Helen Of Troy

By Hughes, Bettany

The Rivals

By Howard, Johnette

Embroideries

By Satrapi, Marjane

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

By Winterson, Jeanette

The Woman who Changed Her Brain: Unlocking the Extraordinary Potential of the Human Mind

By Barbara Arrowsmith-Young

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

By Mangan, Lucy

This Mum Runs

By Pavey, Jo

The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice

By Bolkovac, Kathryn

Jeanette Winterson (New British Fiction)

By Andermahr, Sonya

The Spy Who Loved: The secrets and lives of Christine Granville, Britain's first female special agent of WWII

By Clare Mulley

Kinsey and Me: Stories

By Grafton, Sue