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Bohemian Lives: Three Extraordinary Women: Ida Nettleship, Sophie Brzeska and Fernande Olivier

By Licence, Amy

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley

By Gordon, Charlotte

Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr

By Lyndsey Jenkins

Tales of Innocence and Experience: An Exploration

By Figes, Eva

The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiographical Writings

By Shari Benstock

Women on the Nile: Writings of Harriet Martineau, Florence Nighttingale and Amelia Edwards

By Professor Joan Rees

The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath

By Gail Crowther

Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music

By Engle, MS Margarita, Lopez, Rafael

Prairie Fires: The Life and Times of Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder

By Anderson, WILLIAM, Wilder, Laura Ingalls

Journey To Nowhere: One Woman Looks For The Promised Land

By Figes, Eva

Justice Women: The Female Presence in the Criminal Justice System 1800-1970

By Wade, Stephen

Can Any Mother Help Me?

By Bailey, Jenna

The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth

By Wilson, Frances

Celestine

By Tindall, Gillian

The Odd Women

By Gissing, George

Dust in the Lion's Paw: Autobiography, 1939-46 (Century Travellers S.)

By Stark, Freya

Freya Stark (Lives of Modern Women)

By Moorehead, Caroline

Palladio (Architect and Society)

By Ackerman, James, Massar, Phyllis

All Said And Done

By Simone de Beauvoir

Esther Waters (Everyman)

By Moore, George

The Boxer's Heart: How I Fell in Love with the Ring

By Sekules, Kate

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym: A Times Book of the Year 2021

By Byrne, Paula

Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time

By Garfield, Simon

Georgette Heyer's Regency World

By Kloester, Jennifer

Order Out Of Chaos: The Autobiographical Works of Maya Angelou

By McPherson, Dolly

The Middlepause: on turning fifty

By Benjamin, Marina

ADRIFT: A True Story of Love, Loss and Survival at Sea

By Oldham Ashcraft

The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Waugh, Evelyn, Mitford, Nancy

Letters Between Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry

By Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry, Cherry A Hankin [editor]