
The Lost History of Stars
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In turn-of-the-century South Africa, fourteen-year-old Lettie, her younger brother, and her mother...
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The Classic Slave Narratives
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., presents a seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including the...

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The Fatal Shore
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An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of...

The Poisonwood Bible
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Barbara Kingsolver's acclaimed international bestseller tells the story of an American missionary...
Latina Political Participation and Activism in the U.S.
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Anna Sampaio's book provides an overview of Latina political participation and activism beginning in...

The Making of the West End Stage: Marriage, Management and the Mapping of Gender in London, 1830-1870
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All roads lead to London - and to the West End theatre. This book presents a new history of the...

Beyond the Cloister: Catholic Englishwomen and Early Modern Literary Culture
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Representations of Catholic women appear with surprising frequency in the literature of...

Joining the Dots: A Woman In Her Time
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From Britain’s leading social historian, a lyrical look at the changes to women’s lives since...
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Bad Girls from History: Wicked or Misunderstood?
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You wont be familiar with every one of the huge array of women featured in these pages, but all,...