Women

One wet autumn evening in 1848, fifteen-year-old Mary Ann Gill stole out of a bedroom window in her father's Sydney hotel and took a coach to a local racecourse. There she was to elope with James Butler Kinchela, wayward son of the former...

Cecelia was a fifteen-year-old slave when she accompanied her mistress, Frances "Fanny" Thruston Ballard, on a holiday trip to Niagara Falls. During their stay, Cecelia crossed the Niagara River and joined the free black population of Canada. Although...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556525223Author Anne Thomas SoffeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint A Cappella BooksPublisher A Cappella BooksWeight(grams) 312g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619705975Author Corrie Ten BoomFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Hendrickson Publishers IncPublisher Hendrickson Publishers Inc

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Washington Women, 2nd Edition celebrates the women who shaped the Evergreen State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944466244Author Carolyn Kinder CarrFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Smithsonian Institution Scholarly PressPublisher Smithsonian Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307476258Author Carol BerkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Utah offers a paradox in women’s history—a state founded by polygamists who offered women early suffrage and encouraged career education in the nineteenth century. More than Petticoats: Remarkable Utah Women tells the stories of twelve strong and...

A brilliant writer and a fiery social critic, Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was perhaps the most famous American woman of her generation. Outspoken and quick-witted, idealistic and adventurous, she became the leading female figure in the transcendentalist...

A brilliant writer and a fiery social critic, Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) was perhaps the most famous American woman of her generation. Outspoken and quick-witted, idealistic and adventurous, she became the leading female figure in the transcendentalist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307357236Author Debbie TravisFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255g

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Vermont Women celebrates the women who shaped the Green Mountain State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers,...

America's women activists have striven bravely and tirelessly to affect the course of American history. Their story, as told in letters, memoirs, diaries, and speeches, is as wide and varied as America itself. This anthology begins with the...

Of Colonial Bungalows and Piano Lessons can be read as a metaphor — as an icon — of the encounter between cultures. The memoir is based on Monica Chanda’s recollections between about 1913 and 1927, of life in Calcutta, districts of undivided Bengal,...

Award-winning author Merle Massie brings to the page the life and career of Sylvia Fedoruk (1927-2012), which encompassed some of the most ground-breaking scientific, athletic and public transformations of the twentieth century. A pioneer in leading-edge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608011346Author Melanie McCabeFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952636387Author Alisa FreedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 618Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian Studies

This charming book The Many Worlds of Sarala Devi and The Tagores and Sartorial Styles, as the titles suggest, contain two separate but related writings on the Tagores. The Tagores were a pre-eminent family which became synonymous with the cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780762743728Author Chris EnssFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint TwoDot BooksPublisher TwoDot BooksWeight(grams) 16g

Blizzards, droughts, predators, unpredictable markets, and a host of other calamities tell the history of the daily struggles of Western ranching, and perhaps no one has told the story better than Nannie T. Alderson, a transplanted southern woman who...

Despite being the third smallest state, Connecticut can claim more than its share of remarkable women who have made lasting social, political, and cultural contributions to both their own state and to their nation. From Prudence Crandall, Connecticut's...

Powerful, captivating, and hopeful, Dreams from the Monster Factory goes beyond statistics and sensational portrayals of prison life and reveals the troubling realities of U.S. jails, and an astonishing alternative. .Sunny Schwartz founded the Resolve to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416537434Author Marina NematFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 212mm *...

The Remarkable Women series profiles the lives of the state's most fascinating figures-women from many different backgrounds, and from various walks of life. With enduring strength and compassion, these remarkable women broke through social, cultural, or...

In the fall of 2001, a newlywed English professor took on a job editing the "women's section" of one of Pakistan's leading Urdu newspapers. She soon transformed pages of celebrity gossip and fashion advice into a vehicle for the investigation of the true...

Award-winning historian Martha Hodes brings us into the extraordinary world of Eunice Connolly. Born white and poor in New England, Eunice moved from countryside to factory city, worked in the mills, then followed her husband to the Deep South. When the...

Of Colonial Bungalows and Piano Lessons can be read as a metaphor - as an icon - of the encounter between cultures. The memoir is based on Monica Chanda's recollections between about 1913 and 1927, of life in Calcutta, districts of undivided Bengal,...

This objective, well-researched biography tells the story of the woman whose meteoric rise to the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidacy made history. Sarah Palin: A Biography offers a candid yet unbiased look at the charismatic politician who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870206839Author Lindsay AshfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno LtdWeight(grams) 191g

In 1918, Rebecca Goldberg-a Jewish immigrant from the Russian Empire living in rural Wilmington, Massachusetts-lost her husband, Nathan, to a railroad accident, a tragedy that left her alone with six children to raise. To support the family after...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617754937Author Valerie GravesFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578267903Author Susi Gott SeguretFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Hatherleigh Press,U.S.Publisher Hatherleigh Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578267682Author Laura FahrentholdFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Hatherleigh Press,U.S.Publisher Hatherleigh Press,U.S.

At once "a pop culture phenomenon" (Publishers Weekly) and "screamingly funny" (Booklist), Educating Esme "should be read by anyone who's interested in the future of public education" (Boston Phoenix Literary Section). A must-read for parents, new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781563683213Author B. CyrusFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399589485Author Amy ButlerFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Dial Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 217mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888363067Author Kathryn HyattFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 278g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888397089Author Stella T. JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Born in 1901, Louise Thompson Patterson was a leading and transformative figure in radical African American politics. Throughout most of the twentieth century she embodied a dedicated resistance to racial, economic, and gender exploitation. In this, the...