"Astonishingly gifted from the start, Woolf learned to be attentive to the movements of her own mind. Through self-reflection she found a language for the ebb and flow of thought, fantasy, feeling and memory, for the shifts of light and dark. And in her writing she preserved, recreated and altered the dead, altering in the process her internal relationship with their "invisible presence." "I will go backwards & forwards" she remarked in her diary, a comment on both her imaginative and writerly practice.".

Beatrice Webb was born in 1858 into a wealthy and privileged family. However, she renounced society life to fight for the people of the abyss, venturing in disguise into the slums of the East End, and challenging Lloyd George in a campaign to abolish the workhouse. Socialism became a secular religion for Beatrice, with her passionate and emotional nature devoted to its cause. Longing to become a mother, she gave up the one man she loved, Joseph Chamberlain the dazzling leader of the radicals, to marry Sidney Webb, a Cockney hairdresser's son, in a brave act of class rebellion.

Biografie van Petronilla, gravin van Holland, die na de dood van haar man, graaf Floris II de Vette, het bewind over Holland succesvol ter hand nam.

Biografie van de Duitse neuroloog Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915), ontdekker van de naar hem genoemde vorm van dementie.

The untold story of how Felice della Rovere, the illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, became the most powerful woman in Rome. Caroline P. Murphy evokes not only the great turbulence and creativity of Renaissance Italy, but also Felice's daily life, from dealing with squabbles among servants to her advice on the best way to bribe a Pope.

Looks at the life and career of the Japanese literature specialist, including his time in World War II as a language officer at Pearl Harbor, his stint as a Chinese war-crimes investigator, and his eventual return trip to Japan

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Biografie van de nationaal-socialistische leider (1889-1945).