Women's Biographies

Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-century Lives

By Davis, Natalie Zemon

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

By Williams, Terry Tempest

Girl, Interrupted

By Kaysen, Susanna

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

By Malcolm, J., Ms Janet

Doctors: Vintage Books Edition: The Biography of Medicine

By Nuland, Sherwin B.

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

By Bumiller, Elisabeth

Helen Keller: Courage in the Dark

By Hurwitz, Johanna, Johanna Hurwitz

The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult

By Walker, Alice

The Million Dollar Mermaid: An Autobiography

By Williams, Esther, Diehl, Digby

Desert Blooms: A Personal Adventure in Growing Old Creatively

By Boyle, Sarah-Patton

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

By Beer, Edith Hahn, Dworkin, Susan, Hahn-Beer, Edith

Emma Hamilton

By Norah Robinson Lofts

Freya Stark: Passionate Nomad

By Geniesse, Jane Fletcher

Unveiled: Nuns Talking

By Loudon, Mary

Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life

By Gordon, Lyndall

Virginia Woolf

By Lee, Hermione

Gwen John

By Roe, Sue

Precious Lives

By Forster, Margaret

Artemisia: The Story of a Battle for Greatness

By Lapierre, Alexandra, Heron, Liz

Good Wives?

By Margaret, Forster

Sky Burial

By Xinran

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

By Juska, Jane

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

By Bakewell, Sarah

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

By Hamilton, Gabrielle, Gabrielle Hamilton

The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography

By Gordon, Edmund

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

By Knight, Lynn

My Life in Houses

By Forster, Margaret

Whisperings in the Blood

By Davidow, Shelley

Women

By Attallah, Naim

Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America - A Memoir

By Elizabeth Wurtzel