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The Pebbled Shore

By Elizabeth Harman Pakenham Longford, Cou

America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

By Sarah Bradford

Eleanor Roosevelt: V.2

By Blanche Wiesen-Cook

Margery Kempe: and her world (The Medieval World)

By Goodman, A.E.

Olive Schreiner

By Ruth First, Ann Scott, Nadine Gordimer

Memoirs from the Women's Prison

By Nawal El-Saadawi, Nawal el Sa'adawi, M. Booth

Motherwell: The moving memoir of growing up in 60s and 70s working class Scotland

By Deborah Orr

Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1946-1969

By Violet Bonham Carter, Mark Pottle, Mary Soames

Bronner :Rosa Luxemburg (Paper)

By SE BRONNER

Breaking & Mending: A junior doctor's stories of compassion & burnout

By Joanna Cannon

Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers

By Joseph P. Lash, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr

Them: A Memoir of Parents

By Francine du Plessix Gray

A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers

By Michael Holroyd

Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business

By Dolly Parton

What Makes Women Happy

By Weldon, Fay

New Methods for Women: A Manifesto for Independence

By Sharmadean Reid

Save ME from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story

By Brian Welch

Finding Me: A Memoir

By Viola Davis

Written by Herself: Volume I: Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology

By Jill Ker Conway

Motown From The Background

By Vickie Wright, Louvain Demps, Marlene Barrow-Tate

Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat

By Edward McPherson

Cupid and the King: Five Royal Paramours

By Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent

Portraits of American Women: From Settlement to the Present

By G. J. Barker-Benfield (Department of History, Department of History, State University of New York, Albany), Catherine Clinton (Fellow, W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Fellow, Harvard University)

Victoria and Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant

By Shrabani Basu

The Journey is My Home

By Lavinia Byrne

Mary Warnock: A Memoir - People and Places

By Mary Warnock

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

By Philippa Gregory

In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

By Sarah Langford

Re-educated: Why it's never too late to change your life

By Lucy Kellaway

Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist

By Lois Gordon