"Lindbergh could hardly have found a more generous biographer."-The Los Angeles Times Book Review.

"This beautifully crafted book is a landmark in literary and cultural studies. Kate Phillips brings together in this definitive life of Helen Hunt Jackson a variety of challenging issues-feminism, literary history, psychology, social history, biography, intellectual history, anthropology-and the result is a brilliant contribution to the entire field of American studies. "Helen Hunt Jackson: A Literary Life" will have a broad and lasting impact on our understanding of American culture."--Sacvan Bercovitch, Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature, Harvard University

The story of Ruth Barnett, who performed more than forty thousand abortions between 1918 and 1968 without losing a single patient, reveals how the antiabortion laws benefitted racketeers, syndicates, politicians, and the press, reestablished state control of women's bodies, and victimized women.

A historian presents the first full-length biography of the black woman crusader for racial justice and women's rights in the period after Reconstruction, detailing her efforts to eliminate lynching and her complicated relationship with the feminists of the time. UP.

The ideals of the French Revolution inflamed a longing for liberty and equality within courageous, freethinking women of the era—women who played vital roles in the momentous events that reshaped their nation and the world. In Liberty, Lucy Moore paints a vivid portrait of six extraordinary Frenchwomen from vastly different social and economic backgrounds who helped stoke the fervor and idealism of those years, and who risked everything to make their mark on history. Germaine de Staël was a wealthy, passionate Parisian intellectual—as consumed by love affairs as she was by politics—who helped write the 1791 Constitution. Théroigne de Méricourt was an unhappy courtesan who fell in love with revolutionary ideals. Exuberant, decadent Thérésia Tallien was a ruthless manipulator instrumental in engineering Robespierre's downfall. Their stories and others provide a fascinating new perspective on one of history's most turbulent epochs.

Born in 1911 in the illustrious Sarabhai family of Ahmedabad, Mridula came under the spell of Gandhi and left her palatial home to hoin the Salt Satyagraha. She was involved not only in the freedom struggle but also in the fight for women's equality, for the individual's right in dissent, and for the rights of minorities. This biography represents a page from the social and political history of modern India, over half a century seen through the life of one person.

Calame, Marie-Anne (Erzieherin).

Recaptures the author's early Paris years, when he met Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and published his first important collection of stories

Profiles the nation's original First Lady as the widowed mother of two children who became George Washington's beloved partner and a mainstay in his stressful life, drawing on numerous sources to reveal her contributions to American character.

A historian presents the first full-length biography of the black woman crusader for racial justice and women's rights in the period after Reconstruction, detailing her efforts to eliminate lynching and her complicated relationship with the feminists of the time. UP.

Kirsten Jacobsen interviewde Henning Mankell en reisde met hem mee tijdens een aantal van zijn reizen. Naast Mankell zelf hebben ook anderen een bijdrage geleverd aan deze biografie, zoals zijn vrouw en kinderen, Desmond Tutu en Kenneth Branagh, de acteur die Wallander speelde in de gelijknamige Engelse televisieserie. Henning Mankell is een zeer persoonlijk portret van de idealist, de socialist, de workaholic en de schrijver, die met zijn ene been in de Zweedse sneeuw staat en met het andere in het Afrikaanse zand.