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A Two-Part Invention Elizabeth Garrett 9781852244620
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.52The informing spirit of Garrett's second collection is music - in the cadences of the language, the forms and resolutions of the poems. For her, a memorable poem is a kind of two-part invention, an... -
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Jo Manton 9781138394117
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £33.73First published in 1965. In 1865, a woman first obtained a legal qualification in this country as physician and surgeon. Elizabeth Garrett surprised public opinion by the calm obstinacy with which... -
A Place of Her Own: The Story of Elizabeth Garrett by Ruth Hall 9781632936486
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £22.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632936486Author Ruth HallFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone... -
Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy by Elizabeth Garrett 9780521140096
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.11Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to explore the problems of budget policy. The authors, including top... -
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: 1836-1917 by Louisa Garrett Anderson 9781108079280
Booksplease Price: £32.52Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917), physician, feminist and champion of women's medical education, played a key role in advancing the position of women in British professional life. Elizabeth's... -
Mary Elizabeth Garrett: Society and Philanthropy in the Gilded Age by Kathleen Waters Sander 9780801888700
Booksplease Price: £48.94Mary Elizabeth Garrett was one of the most influential philanthropists and women activists of the Gilded Age. With Mary's legacy all but forgotten, Kathleen Waters Sander recounts in impressive... -
Mary Elizabeth Garrett: Society and Philanthropy in the Gilded Age by Kathleen Waters Sander 9781421438641
RRP: £21.50Booksplease Price: £16.54Mary Elizabeth Garrett was one of the most influential philanthropists and women activists of the Gilded Age. With Mary's legacy all but forgotten, Kathleen Waters Sander recounts in impressive... -
Women Scientists in Medicine by Nancy Dickmann
Booksplease Price: £4.60Discover the remarkable achievements of female medics in this fascinating book. Learn more about this STEM topic through inspirational women such as Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson... -
The World's First Women Doctors: Elizabeth Blackwell and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: Band 16/Sapphire (Collins Big Cat) by Isabel Thomas
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £7.36Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level Find out all about two ground breaking figures in medicine - Elizabeth Blackwell and Elizabeth Garret Anderson,... -
Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain's Trailblazing Military Hospital by Wendy Moore
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.46A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKWhen the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora... -
Short History Of The Victorian Era, A Pocket Essential by Gordon Kerr
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £2.55It began with the horse-drawn carriage and ended with the aeroplane... An era, beginning in the 1830s and ending with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, that saw the British Empire - the largest... -
A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine by Dr. Ralph H. Hruban
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.29A prismatic examination of the evolution of medicine, from a trade to a science, through the exemplary lives of ten men and women.Johns Hopkins University, one of the preeminent medical schools in... -
Midwives and Medical Men: A History of the Struggle for the Control of Childbirth Jean Donnison 9781032456317
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.79Originally published in 1977 and as a second edition in 1988, this book introduces the reader to the women at the top of the midwifery profession up until the 17th Century who attended the... -
The Pioneering Garretts: Breaking the Barriers for Women by Jenifer Glynn 9781847252074
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £89.09No other family was as active, and successful, on so many fronts as the Garretts. Their ideas and leadership had enormous influence. They saw how education for women was a basic need, and how... -
Rapiers and Battleaxes: The Women's Movement and its Aftermath Josephine Kamm 9781032851570
Booksplease Price: £98.45The long and bitter struggle for the vote is certainly the most spectacular part of the history of women’s emancipation. Originally published in 1966 Rapiers and Battleaxes tells the story in its... -
Palgrave's Golden Treasury by Francis Turner Palgrave
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £10.12Originally published in 1861, Palgrave's Golden Treasury quickly established itself as the most popular selection of English poems. Today it stands as a testament to the richness of our finest native... -
A Manual of Neonatal Intensive Care Janet M Rennie 9781032515915
RRP: £83.99Booksplease Price: £73.69The sixth edition of this successful and well-regarded book is a useful ready-reference for the practicing pediatrician and nurse and gives invaluable guidance for trainees in pediatrics,... -
Votes For Women!: The Pioneers and Heroines of Female Suffrage (from the pages of A History of Britain in 21 Women) by Jenni Murray
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.35Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment. They fought for the vote. They... -
Half the Human Race: New and Selected Poems Susan Utting 9781909747258
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Half the Human Race includes poems from three previous collections, alongside new work reflecting and developing earlier themes of the lives of women, particularly those who are too often overlooked,... -
Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys 1798-1879 by Robert Gittings 9780198183518
Booksplease Price: £52.11Claire Clairmont, stepsister of Mary Shelley and mother of Byron's illegitimate daughter Allegra, has never been given a full biographical treatment until this acclaimed biography by the late Robert... -
The Times Great Women's Lives: A Celebration in Obituaries by Sue Corbett 9780750992558
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.84This selection of Times obituaries from 1872 to 2014 revisits the lives of 125 women who have all, in their own way, played an important part in women's educational, professional, social, cultural... -
Wordsworth's Poetic Theory: Knowledge, Language, Experience by Alexander Regier 9780230525443
Booksplease Price: £46.74Together, Wordsworth's verse and his compelling criticism have done much to shape our understanding of poetic art since the Romantic period. This volume is the first in many years to reexamine... -
International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950 by Catherine M.C. Haines 9781576070901
Booksplease Price: £76.81A comprehensive biographical guide to the scientific achievements, personal lives, and struggles of women scientists from around the globe. International Women in Science: A Bibliographical... -
Pornography, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action by Frances Ferguson
Booksplease Price: £26.68When we think of debates about pornography, what first comes to mind is the question of whether it should be banned or protected. But perhaps we should ask instead what pornography tells us about the... -
Pornography, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action by Frances Ferguson 9780226243207
Booksplease Price: £91.23When we think of debates about pornography, what first comes to mind is the question of whether it should be banned or protected. But perhaps we should ask instead what pornography tells us about the... -
Simple Massage: Techniques for Relaxation, Healing, and Empowerment by Daphne Roubini 9781800653382
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.70Step-by-step massage techniques from East and West to revitalise mind, body and soul. From basic, revitalising full-body sequences to healing Ayurvedic treatments, and from reflexology to the... -
Land, Nation and Culture, 1740-1840: Thinking the Republic of Taste by Peter De Bolla 9781403920478
Booksplease Price: £46.28Over the last twenty years, critics and historians of the late Eighteenth-century have developed a multidisciplinary approach to the history of culture. This dialogue between literary critics and... -
Victorian Feminists: Ten 19th Century Women Ahead of their Times Rebecca Sophia Katherine Wilson 9781399069397
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £22.66The Victorian era is often remembered for its rigid gender roles, yet beneath the surface, extraordinary women were challenging societal expectations and paving the way for future generations... -
Land, Nation and Culture, 1740-1840: Thinking the Republic of Taste by Peter De Bolla 9781349514755
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.75Over the last twenty years, critics and historians of the late Eighteenth-century have developed a multidisciplinary approach to the history of culture. This dialogue between literary critics and... -
Populism, Gender, and Sympathy in the Romantic Novel by J. Carson 9780230621107
Booksplease Price: £46.74Populism, Gender, and Sympathy in the Romantic Novel is a richly historicized account that explores anxieties about crowds, fiction and disguise, women authors, and unstable gender roles. James P... -
Rapiers and Battleaxes: The Women's Movement and Its Aftermath Josephine Kamm 9781032851594
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.79The long and bitter struggle for the vote is certainly the most spectacular part of the history of women's emancipation. Originally published in 1966 Rapiers and Battleaxes tells the story in its... -
In the Midst of Life Jennifer Worth, SRN, SCM 9781474606660
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Jennifer Worth's bestselling memoirs of her time as a midwife have inspired and moved readers of all ages. Now, in In the Midst of Life she documents her experiences as a nurse and ward sister,... -
Farewell To The East End by Jennifer Worth
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The third and final book in the bestselling CALL THE MIDWIFE series, the basis of the major BBC TV series.This final book in Jennifer Worth's memories of her time as a midwife in London's East end... -
Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London by Jennifer Worth
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A fascinating slice of East End life, from the No.1 bestsellilng author of CALL THE MIDWIFE, soon to be a major BBC TV series.In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working... -
Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy by Elizabeth A. Graddy 9780521877312
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £82.02Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to explore the problems of budget policy. The authors, including top... -
Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s by Jennifer Worth 9780753823835
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.05A fascinating slice of social history - Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London, now a major BBC TV series.Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife... -
Pioneers of the London School of Medicine for Women (1874-1947): Their Contributions and Interwoven Lives by Marelene Rayner-Canham 9783030954383
RRP: £129.99Booksplease Price: £61.04This book presents the pioneering role of the women chemists at the London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW). The account is placed within the framework of the long-forgotten background to the... -
Pioneers of the London School of Medicine for Women (1874-1947): Their Contributions and Interwoven Lives by Marelene Rayner-Canham 9783030954413
RRP: £129.99Booksplease Price: £61.04This book presents the pioneering role of the women chemists at the London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW). The account is placed within the framework of the long-forgotten background to the... -
Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s by Jennifer Worth 9780753827871
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London, now a major BBC TV series.Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The... -
Letters to the Midwife: Correspondence with Jennifer Worth, the Author of Call the Midwife Jennifer Worth, SRN, SCM 9781780224640
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Letters to the Midwife is a wonderful collection of correspondence received by Jennifer Worth, offering a fascinating glimpse into a long-lost world.Along with readers' responses and personal...