Historical Women

Take a tour of the past and uncover stories of the women whose lives and achievements have shaped our modern world. In Life Lessons from Historical Women, Eleanor Morton celebrates the ordinary women whose decisions and accomplishments in their everyday lives resonate with us today. Whether it's what we can learn from the first woman to summit Everest or the trailblazing ladies who confirm that pockets have always been must-have in women's clothing, Eleanor writes with humour and a sincere respect for our history, and imparts valuable lessons for the modern female.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1970 LOST BOOKER PRIZE, INTRODUCED BY TOM HOLLAND THE ANCIENT GREEK STAGE BROUGHT THRILLINGLY TO LIFE BY THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION, PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE WOMEN OF TROY AND THE ODYSSEY 'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise...

The extraordinary story of Katharine McCormick, the feminist pioneer and benefactor who bankrolled the birth of the pill. For over six decades, women have taken the pill more than any other prescribed medicine in the world. Yet the woman who had the foresight and means to fund the pill's...

The discovery of a family history, of secrets and adventure - from the Adelaide Hills to a wild, little-known land far from the safety of home - is stunningly revealed in master storyteller Di Morrissey's 32nd novel. In 1912, Dora Thompson leaves Sydney to take up a role in New Guinea as a...

A history of peasants in the Middle Ages, the story takes the listener into the life of Marion, the carpenter's wife, and her extended family as they struggle to survive through hardship, featuring a year in their lives at the mercy of the weather and the Lord of the Manor. Existing without soap, paper or glass and only with the most basic of tools, we learn how they survive starvation, sickness, fire and natural disaster in their home on the edge of the Weald.

Un an après le retour de Marion au manoir, la vie semble reprendre son cours normal. Mais la période d'accalmie sera brève puisque survient le krach boursier de 1929, un événement qui secouera l'Amérique entière. Fulgurante et inattendue, la catastrophe n'épargne personne… Les membres des familles O'Gallagher, Couturier et Lafrance subiront, eux aussi les conséquences de la terrible débâcle financière. Malgré ces bouleversements, la jeune Marion, à 16 ans, comprend la chance qu'elle a d'être sortie d'un cocon familial étouffant.

A page turning historical fiction novel that's guaranteed to warm your heart, perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin! Will her spirits be lifted this Christmas? Despite the hardships of wartime, Iolanthe Inverdale is determined to make the best of things. With her new job at The...

The owners of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are back, and more determined than ever to bring love matches to the residents of post-WWII London . . . so something as trivial as a murder investigation isn't going to stop them! London, 1947. Spirited Miss Iris Sparks and ever-practical Mrs...

Lanaudière, 1926. Avec bientôt huit bouches à nourrir, les Couturier peinent à joindre les deux bouts. Ainsi, Marion, treize ans, doit-elle accepter un emploi chez les O'Gallagher, une riche famille irlandaise. La jeune adolescente est alors prise en charge par la cuisinière du manoir, Éléonore Légaré, une femme au grand coeur qui s'attache à sa nouvelle protégée malgré ses airs de campagnarde. En dépit des conventions, Marion et le jeune James, héritier présumé du clan des maîtres, fraternisent sans trop comprendre les lois non écrites qui régissent les étages.

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How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhoodand the brilliant doctor who defied them. After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine. Barred entrance to...

La conclusion d’une saga bouleversante qui met en vedette des femmes inspirantes et des plus attachantes ! Après Marion, Félicité et Éléonore, l’une des plus populaires séries de Louise Tremblay d’Essiambre met cette fois en scène Agnès, une femme tout aussi inoubliable que les précédentes. Alors qu’elle s’approche doucement de son rêve de devenir institutrice, la jeune femme se coupe mystérieusement du monde et se fait de moins en moins disponible pour son amie Marion.

Voici la suite attendue des tribulations de trois familles québécoises de classes différentes au tournant des années 1920. Après avoir goûté au bonheur de travailler au manoir des O’Gallagher, le destin forcera-t-il la jeune Marion à retourner auprès de sa famille où sa mère a besoin d’aide pour diriger la maisonnée pendant une grossesse qui s’annonce difficile? Et que deviendra Ovide, le fils aîné des Couturier qui s’est volatilisé dans des circonstances obscures?

The brilliant and sometimes scandalous lives of twenty-one women who made French history. From Eleanor of Aquitaine to Edith Piaf, Colette to Coco Chanel, discover the lives of 21 women who made French history. French women have always had so much more to say than ‘let them eat cake’! Whether kicking the English out of Orléans, marching on Versailles or running messages for the French resistance, their stories of courage, creativity and genius have long defined French history.

London, 1815. If love is war, then London’s marriage mart is a battlefield—and Helena Weston is its most cunning general. As the diamond of the season, Helena has never struggled to collect suitors. But when her father’s fortune collapses, she faces the unthinkable: marriage not as a conquest, but as survival. Using Sun Tzu’s The Art of War as her courtship playbook, Helena has only two months to secure a husband rich enough to save her family from destitution.

When Janis Karpinski first saw the photos of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, she felt the walls of her Baghdad office closing in on her. She recognized that the soldiers shown grinning over the naked, cowering Iraqi detainees serves under her command. Military justice already had swept up...

In the wreckage of 1930s Berlin, silence was survival. In 1950s Toronto, it’s a prison. For Anna, the glass-fronted shops and bustling streetcars of postwar Toronto are merely a fresh coat of paint on a haunted house. She has spent years meticulously burying her past beneath the city’s polite rhythms, convinced that what is lost to the rubble stays there. She has survived by becoming a stranger to herself, until a chance meeting unearths the one thing she wasn't prepared to find: her sister, Gerta, is alive.

She's running from London's marriage mart. He's running out of time to save his estate. Neither intends to fall in love—but their hearts have other plans. American heiress Calliope Hart is thrust into London's high society against her will, all because her mother is determined to marry her off...

War brings them together. Liberation will tear them apart. A POWERFUL PORTRAIT OF WAR. A HEARTBREAKING STORY OF LOVE. THE EXTRAORDINARY NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF WHILE PARIS SLEPT. Paris 1944. Elise Chevalier knows what it is to love...and to hate. Her fiancé, a young French soldier, was...

From celebrated New York Times bestselling author, Steve Berry, comes the latest Cotton Malone adventure, in which the discovery of a lost historical document challenges the global might of the United States. King Ludwig II of Bavaria was an enigmatic figure who was deposed in 1886, mysteriously...