Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

Start Over Subject Autobiography and Biography Region Europe Era 19th Century

1. The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had

Author: Helen Rappaport
Publication date: 2025

2. A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson

Author: Camille Peri
Publication date: 2024

3. The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

Author: Dava Sobel
Publication date: 2024

4. Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy

Author: Janet Wallach
Publication date: 2023

5. The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life

Author: Clare Carlisle
Publication date: 2023

6. In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Black Cultural Icon and Humanitarian

Author: Helen Rappaport
Publication date: 2022

7. Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood

Author: Hilary A. Hallett
Publication date: 2022

8. Queen of the Savoy: The Extraordinary Life of Helen D'Oyly Carte, 1852–1913

Author: Elisabeth Kehoe
Publication date: 2022

9. A. Mary F. Robinson: Victorian Poet and Modern Woman of Letters

Author: Patricia Rigg
Publication date: 2021

10. Forgotten Wives: How Women Get Written out of History

Author: Ann Oakley
Publication date: 2021

11. The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky

Author: Andrew D. Kaufman
Publication date: 2021

12. Rosa Luxemburg

Author: Dana Mills
Publication date: 2020

13. Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel

Author: Rachel Holmes
Publication date: 2020

14. Women's Letters as Life Writing, 1840–1885

Author: Catherine Delafield
Publication date: 2020

15. Karin Bergöö Larsson and the Emergence of Swedish Design

Author: Marge Thorell
Publication date: 2019

16. L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"

Author: Lucasta Miller
Publication date: 2019

17. Marie Marvingt, Fiancée of Danger: First Female Bomber Pilot, World-Class Athlete, and Inventor of the Air Ambulance

Author: Rosalie Maggio
Publication date: 2019

18. Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

Author: Lyndall Gordon
Publication date: 2019

19. Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890–1918

Editor: Lizzie Ehrenhalt and Tilly Laskey
Publication date: 2019

20. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Author: Hallie Rubenhold
Publication date: 2019