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Debs at War: 1939-1945 by Anne de Courcy
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Women in History Ser.
An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the War Pre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most ...Show more
Eleanor of Aquitaine by Marion Meade
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Women in History
A comprehensive account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The wife of King Louis VII of France and then of King Henry II of England and mother to Richard Coeur de Lion and King John, she became a key political figure of the 12th century. Paperback (B-Format)
Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Women in History
Elizabeth I ruled England in defiance of convention, exercising supreme authority in a man's world. With courage, brilliance and style, she reigned for nearly 45 years. Anne Somerset's biography of this complex and gifted woman provides a portrait of her personal life and her career as leader.Paperback ...Show more
Lucrezia Borgia by Maria Bellonci
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Women in History | Reading Level: very good
Among the violent personalities of the High Renaissance, Lucrezia Borgia is chiefly remembered as a raven-haired poisoner, but the Lucrezia depicted here is a passionate, womanly figure moving uncertainly through the Papal court and through the intrigues, ambitions and chicanery around her. Paperback (B ...Show more
Mary Queen Of Scots by Antonia Fraser
$27.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Women in History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Ground-breaking ... One of the greatest international bestsellers of the post-war period' Andrew Roberts, Daily Telegraph 'Reads like an engrossing novel' Sunday Times An infant queen. A teenage widow. Beautiful, flamboyant Mary Queen of Scots had a formidable intellect but her political sense - formed ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Women in History
More than 400 years after her death, Mary Queen of Scots remains one of the most romantic and controversial figures in British history. This reissue of her biography explores all areas of her life, particularly her time in France, her marriages, imprisonment and her execution at the age of 44. Paperb ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Women in History
Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen. Widowed less than two years later, she returned to Scotland as Queen after an absence of thirteen years. Her life then entered its best known phase: the early struggles with John K ...Show more
Medieval Women : A Social History of Women in England 450-1500 by Henrietta Leyser
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Women in History
Medieval Women looks at a thousand years of English history, as it affected - and was made by - women. Henrietta Leyser considers the problems and attitudes fundamental to every woman of the time: medieval views on sex, marriage and motherhood; the world of work and the experience of widowhood for peasa ...Show more
Personal History by Katharine Graham
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Women in History Ser.
As seen in the new movie The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep, here is the captivating, inside story of the woman who piloted the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media. In this bestselling and widely acclaimed memoir, Katha ...Show more
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Women in History
Antonia Fraser takes a sympathetic look at the lives of Henry VIII's wives. Taking each in turn, she portrays them as women of spirit, and looks beyond their tragic ends. Paperback (B-Format)
The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters by Anne De Courcy
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Women in History Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Viceroy's Daughters is the riveting chronicle of the dazzling lives of three remarkable sisters -- aristocratic, rich, spirited and willful-born when the wealth and privilege of the British upper classes were at their zenith. Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (born 1898) and Alexandra (born 1904) were the ...Show more
The Weaker Vessel - Woman's lot in seventeenth-century England by Antonia Fraser
$37.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Women in History | Reading Level: very good
Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce? What rights had the unmarried? What expectations the widows? An ...Show more
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