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Witchcraze by Anne Llewellyn Barstow 9780062510365
RRP: $20.63$12.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062510365Author Anne BarstowFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 235gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Women in the War by Lucy Fisher 9780008456115
RRP: $25.80$23.25'An important contribution to our recent history' ANDREW MARR 'Absorbing and important' JOAN BAKEWELL 'One of my favourite reads of 2021' GARETH RUSSELL ... -
Modern Women: 52 Pioneers by Kira Cochrane
RRP: $28.38$18.27Modern Women is a celebration of influential and inspiring women who have changed the world through their lives, work and actions. From suffragettes to scientists, activists to artists, politicians to pilots and writers to riot grrrls, the women... -
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: $14.18$9.55'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals' Sunday TimesCAROLINE NORTON, a nineteenth-century heroine who wanted justice for women.Poet, pamphleteer and artist's... -
Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels by Hannah Ross 9781474611381
RRP: $14.18$11.09'Eye-opening and inspirational . . . An utterly fascinating and gloriously fiery read' FELICITY CLOAKE 'A barnstorming book' GUARDIAN 'Fascinating . . . full of inspirational tales' OBSERVER Simone de Beauvoir borrowed her lover's bike to cycle around... -
Calamity Jane: The Life and Legend of Martha Jane Cannary by D. J. Herda
RRP: $18.05$13.98Young Martha Jane Cannary began life as a camp follower and street urchin. Parentless by the age of twelve, she morphed into the mother of two who just as often took employment as a waitress, laundress, or dance hall girl as she did an Indian scout or... -
The Tudor Housewife by Alison Sim
RRP: $16.76$10.54The political and military history of the sixteenth century is well known, and much written about, but what of the thousands of women who have, for the most part, eluded the historian's pen? The Tudor Housewife aims to answer this question, providing a... -
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross
RRP: $30.95$28.57The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means "parts for which you should be ashamed". Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles. The fallopian tubes are named for a man. Named, claimed, and shamed: Welcome to the story of the female... -
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Clare L. Evans
RRP: $16.76$11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593329443Author Clare L. EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses by Sarah Gristwood
RRP: $19.34$12.29The true story of the White Queen and more, this is a thrilling history of the extraordinary noblewomen who lived through the Wars of the Roses. The events of the Wars of the Roses are usually described in terms of the men involved: Richard... -
Suffragette Fascists: Emmeline Pankhurst and Her Right-Wing Followers by Simon Webb 9781526756886
RRP: $19.34$14.13Emmeline Pankhurst is seen today as a valiant champion of democracy, but in the 1930s certain prominent former suffragettes were comparing her to Hitler and Mussolini. It was suggested that Mrs Pankhurst and her Women's Social and Political Union could... -
Queen's Sisters, The: The lives of the sisters of Elizabeth Woodville by Sarah J. Hodder 9781789043631
RRP: $12.89$11.08Whether Queen or commoner, the lives of women throughout history is a fascinating study. Elizabeth Woodville, 'The White Queen', managed to make the transition from commoner to Queen and became the epitome of medieval heroines - the commoner who married... -
Odette by Jerrard Tickell
RRP: $14.18$9.55'I am a very ordinary woman to whom a chance was given to see human beings at their best and at their worst... I completely believe in the potential nobility of the human spirit.'During some of the darkest days of the Second World War, a young... -
Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneill
RRP: $18.05$14.13Have you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there's arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of your underwear is crotchless. (Why? Shush, dear. A lady... -
The Roses of No Man's Land by Lyn Macdonald
RRP: $16.76$11.73THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE BBC DRAMA THE CRIMSON FIELD'On the face of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest... -
Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties by Rachel Cooke
RRP: $14.18$9.55In her apron and rubber gloves, a smile lipsticked permanently across her face, the woman of the Fifties has become a cultural symbol of all that we are most grateful to have sloughed off. A homely compliant creature, she knows little or nothing of sex,... -
Speed Queens: A Secret History of Women in Motorsport by Rachel Harris-Gardiner
RRP: $28.38$20.15Speed Queens is a history of women in motorsport, from the very beginning in 1897 to the modern era. Tracing the different ways that women have found into motor racing and rallying, it covers over a century of stories across the world. Each chapter takes... -
Medieval Women and the Law by Noel James Menuge
RRP: $25.79$21.18Legal records illuminate womens' use of legal processes, with regard to the making of wills, the age of consent, rights concerning marriage and children, women as traders, etc. Determined and largely successful effort to read behind and alongside... -
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega 9781324074465
RRP: $16.76$14.81What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about... -
A Woman's Life Is a Human Life by Felicia Kornbluh 9780802160683
RRP: $25.79$23.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802160683Author Felicia KornbluhFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines by Henrietta Heald 9781783526604
RRP: $25.80$18.12'Women have won their political independence. Now is the time for them to achieve their economic freedom too.'This was the great rallying cry of the pioneers who, in 1919, created the Women's Engineering Society. Spearheaded by Katharine and Rachel... -
Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany by James Wyllie 9780750991223
RRP: $25.80$19.92Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Bormann, Hess - names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margaret, Lina, Gerda and Ilse ... These are the women behind the infamous men - complex... -
Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China by Louise Edwards 9781316509340
RRP: $29.66$25.23In this compelling new study, Louise Edwards explores the lives of some of China's most famous women warriors and wartime spies through history. Focusing on key figures including Hua Mulan, Zheng Pingru and Liu Hulan, this book examines the ways in which... -
Lady of the House: 19th Century Women and their Role in the English Country House by Charlotte Furness 9781526702746
RRP: $16.76$15.20This book tells the true stories of three gentile women who were born, raised, lived and died within the world of England's Country Houses. This is not the story of 'seen and not heard' women, these are incredible women who endured tremendous tragedy and... -
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower
RRP: $16.76$11.73A shocking and timely reminder of the role Nazi women played in the Holocaust, not only as plunderers and direct witnesses, but on the Eastern Front. History has it that the role of women in Nazi Germany was to be the perfect Hausfrau and a loyal... -
Army Girls: The secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II by Tessa Dunlop
RRP: $14.18$9.55Army Girls is the intimate story of the final few women who served in World War II and are still alive to tell their tale. They were female soldiers in a war Britain wanted to fight without conscripting women. It was a vain hope, by December 1941 for the... -
The Churchill Girls: The Story of Winston and Clementine's Daughters by Rachel Trethewey 9781803993263
RRP: $16.76$12.41Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill sisters - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have shone. But they were not in any other family, they were Churchills and neither they nor anyone else could ever forget it. From... -
The Voices of Nimes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc by Suzannah Lipscomb
RRP: $20.63$18.45Most of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women of the middling and lower levels of society left no letters or diaries in which they expressed what they felt or thought... -
A History of Women's Lives on the Isle of Wight by Daisy Plant 9781526720290 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$8.36Ask somebody to give you the name of a woman from history and they'll probably give you a queen's. If not royalty, it'll be a famous courtesan, a noblewoman, a rogue. Some women manage to be all four things at once. Take a look outside, however, and... -
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Amy Stanley
RRP: $12.89$9.17Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020, a vivid work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now known as Tokyo - and a portrait of a great city on the brink of momentous change'Compelling... Deeply absorbing'... -
The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe 9780393976397
$18.42Kempe's work is accompanied by an introduction, a map of medieval England, a Kempe lexicon, and explanatory annotations. "Contexts" collects primary readings that illuminate The Book of Margery Kempe. Included are excerpts from The Constitutions of... -
The Watchman's Widow: A dramatic and emotional Northern historical novel by Joanne Clague 9781800329522
RRP: $11.60$7.51She isn't looking for trouble - but trouble is coming to find her.Still grieving the death of her watchman husband in a terrorist attack during the Outrages, factory worker Rose is struggling to make ends meet when she encounters middle-class Annie, a... -
The Book of Awesome Women: Boundary Breakers, Freedom Fighters, Sheroes and Female Firsts by Becca Anderson
RRP: $16.71$14.16Get Inspired By The Powerful Sheroes In This Feminist Collection Of Short Biographies"This book is an antidote to the erasure of women from our history." Vicki Leon, author of Uppity Women of Ancient Times#1 Best Seller in Teen & Young Adult Social... -
100 Nasty Women of History: Brilliant, badass and completely fearless women everyone should know by Hannah Jewell 9781473671256
RRP: $24.50$16.96'Vital reading' STYLIST'Because 100 Nasty Women is so easy to read and witty, I didn't expect it to be the life changing, important book that I'm discovering it to be' PHILIPPA PERRY* * * * * *These are the women who were deemed too nasty for their... -
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell
RRP: $36.12$22.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735225299Author Sonia PurnellFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm * 31mm -
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal 9780393239348
RRP: $28.37$24.45In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and favourite wife of the Emperor Jahangir who ruled the Mughal Empire. An astute politician as well as a devoted partner, she... -
Snow Widows: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition Through the Eyes of the Women They Left Behind by Katherine MacInnes
RRP: $16.76$10.73'An elegant, densely textured work, like a tapestry ... A welcome contribution to polar studies.' Sara Wheeler, Spectator '[MacInness] handles the whole thing with masterly skill...takes us to the heart of the hope, love, anguish and grief'... -
Too Much by Rachel Vorona Cote
RRP: $25.80$18.43Lacing cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, Too Much explores how culture corsets women's bodies, souls, and sexualities - and how we might finally undo the strings.Written in the tradition of Shrill, Dead Girls, Sex... -
Women Photograph: What We See: Women and nonbinary perspectives through the lens by Daniella Zalcman
RRP: $28.38$18.27Open your eyes to a new world view with 100 women and nonbinary photojournalists' stories from behind the lens. 85% of photojournalists are men. That means almost everything that is reported in the world is seen through men's eyes. Similarly, spaces and... -
World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books by Marta McDowell 9781604697278
RRP: $25.80$20.95"If you loved Wilder's books, or if you garden with a child who loves her books, you will enjoy the read." -San Francisco Chronicle In this revealing exploration of Laura Ingalls Wilder's deep connection with the natural world, Marta McDowell follows the...