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Eleanor of Aquitaine by Marion Meade
29.95 NZD
Category: New Releases | 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
29.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | 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
29.95 NZD
Category: New Releases | 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
29.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | 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
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
29.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | 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: Non-Fiction | 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: Non-Fiction | 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: Biographies & Memoirs | 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 Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser
29.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Women in History
Antonia Fraser's Warrior Queens are those women who have both ruled and led in war. They include Catherine the Great, Elizabeth I, Isabella of Spain, the Rani of Jhansi, and the formidable Queen Jinga of Angola. With Boadicea as the definitive example, her female champions from other ages and civilisati ...Show more
The Weaker Vessel - Woman's lot in seventeenth-century England by Antonia Fraser
29.95 NZD
37.99 (21% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | 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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