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From famous women authors in fiction and poetry to groundbreaking abolitionists and fearless suffragettes, discover an inspirational collection of books by and about famous women in history.

Women’s Rights and Suffrage

Get them a book they can treasure for a lifetime with these stunning editions of children’s classics. Perfectly giftable and a joy to collect.

Women and Representative Government

Millicent Garrett Fawcett

Remembering Caroline Norton

On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship

Marquis de Condorcet

Getting Hitched

A Letter to the Queen

Caroline Norton

My Own Story

Emmeline Pankhurst

Violets and Other Tales

A collection of short stories, essays, and poems by Alice Dunbar Nelson

Harriet Tubman

The Red Record

Ida B. Wells

All These Things the Old Tales Tell

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Memoir & Poems of Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Ann Jacobs

The History of Nursing

Who was Edith Cavell?

Who was Elizabeth Blackwell?

The Lady with the Lamp

Florence Nightingale to Her Nurses

Florence Nightingale

Extraordinary Nurses Throughout History

Hospital Sketches

Louisa May Alcott

Women in Poetry

Ode to Aphrodite

Sappho

The Slave Poet from Boston

Tender Buttons

Gertrude Stein

Songs of Love

Sarojini Naidu

Violets and Other Tales

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Rivers to the Sea

Sara Teasdale

Poems – by Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell

Charlotte Brontë

Emily Dickinson

Women in Fiction

Kristin Lavransdatter

Sigrid Undset

Ruth Hall

Fanny Fern

Three Lives

Gertrude Stein

Middlemarch

George Eliot

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

O Pioneers!

Willa Cather

Persuasion

Jane Austen

The Awakening

Kate Chopin

The Anne of Green Gables Collection

L. M. Montgomery

Explorers, Adventurers, & Pioneers

Poems from The Divan of Hafiz

Gertrude Bell

Amurath to Amurath

Gertrude Bell

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days

Nellie Bly

Six Months in Mexico

Nellie Bly

I Travel the Open Road

A Woman’s Journey Round the World

Ida Pfeiffer

The Women of the Mayflower

The Brontë Sisters

The Brontë Sisters

Her Name Was Charlotte Brontë

A Woman Young and Passionate

Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anne Brontë

Poems – by Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell

Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

Shirley

Charlotte Brontë

All Women in History Books

Daughters of the Eternal City

Malleus Maleficarum: Hammer of the Witches

Heinrich Kramer

Anna Atkins’ Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

Anna Atkins

Snuff, Pugs, and Lace

Keeper of the Robes

Fanny Burney

A Woman’s Life-Work

Laura S. Haviland

Who was Edith Cavell?

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days

Nellie Bly

Women in Journalism – The Best of Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly

Ten Days in a Mad-House

Nellie Bly

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