Catherine Marshall was a vital figure in the women's suffrage movement in Britain before the First World War. Using her remarkable political skills on behalf of the major non-militant organization, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), she built close connections with major suffragist politicians, leading some, in all three parties, to consider adopting a measure of women's enfranchisement as a party plank.

The biography of Mildred Harnack, the only American woman to have been executed for treason against Germany during World War II. With her husband, Mildred was a founding member of the Red Orchestra, an intelligence group that transmitted messages of resistance with the use of contraband radios.

Born in the slums of Birmingham in 1903, Kathleen Dayus was brought up in extreme and often cruel poverty. Later, left a widow while she was still in her twenties, she had to give her four children into the care of Dr Barnardos homes. It took her eight years of troublesome work and determination to achieve an adequate standard of living before she was allowed to have them back. In Her People and Where There's Life, the author told the story of her life up to the return of her children. In All My Days she writes about her life in wartime Birmingham, coping with bombing, keeping her jewellery business going, and later, of her marriage and life over the last 40 years. Interspersed are heart-rending revelations of the lives of her parents and older sister.

The author recounts her nearly sixty-year involvement in British journalism, and describes how public attitudes toward women and the elderly have changed.

The author recounts her nearly sixty-year involvement in British journalism, and describes how public attitudes toward women and the elderly have changed.

Recounts the life of the American poet, and traces her involvement in the socialist movement

The author shares her memories of Flanagan, her stepmother, and describes her years in the theater, including director of the Federal Theatre

The first biography of Gertrude Richardson (1875-1946), A Reconstructed World reveals her key role in the development of feminism and pacifism in England and Canada and her remarkable accomplishments as both an activist and a writer.

Arranged in A-to-Z format, more than 100 entries detail Anthony's life and role in the reform movements that consumed her for six decades. This work features end-of-entry bibliographies, a separate section of excerpted letters and documents -- including unpublished ones -- a chronology of Anthony's life, and a general index.

A charismatic stage and screen actress; a model whose beauty inspired some of the most arresting images of the 20th century; a visionary photographer; a revolutionary with deep commitments to communism; a woman whose life, loves and death were controversial; Tina Modotti (1896-1942) was all of these. Her life was one of almost unimaginable glamour, scandal and turmoil.

Details the public and private lives of Margaret Scott Olmsted, revealing her enormous contributions to the expansion of world peace that included the foundation of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and other valiant endeavors.

"A contempary anecdote not only confirms that Martha commanded respect in her own right during her lifetime, but also suggests an awkward truth later historians have preferred to ignore-that without Martha and her fortune, George might never have risen to social, military, and political prominence.Toward the end of his life, George Washington, war hero, retired president, and object of universal fame and veneration, was negotiating to purchase a plot of land in the new capital city, to be named in his honor. The seller, an aged veteran of the Revolution, was reluctant to part with the plot, even to so distinguished a purchaser. Washington persisted until the veteran's patience snapped: 'You think people take every grist that comes from you as the pure grain. What would you have been if you hadn't married the Widow Custis!' " -from the Introduction to Martha Washington: First Lady of Liberty From the glittering social life of Virginia's wealthiest plantations to the rigors of winter camps during the American Revolution, Martha Washington was a central figure in some of the most important events in American history. Her story is a saga of social conflict, forbidden love affairs, ambiguous wills, mysterious death, heartbreaking loss, and personal and political triumph. Every detail is brought to vivid life in this engaging and astonishing biography of one of the best known, least understood figures in early American life.

When Helene Stapinski was just five years old, her grandfather tried to kill her entire family. A dramatic memory, yet commonplace in Helene's family - in 1922 her great-grandfather murdered her great-grandmother, and even her daily bread was stolen. These stories are part of Helene's heritage.