Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

Start Over Subject Politics Subject Autobiography and Biography Era 19th Century

1. "Nobler Imaginings and Mightier Struggles": Octavia Hill, Social Activism, and the Remaking of British Society

Editor: Elizabeth Baigent and Ben Cowell
Publication date: 2016

2. A Companion to First Ladies

Editor: Katherine A. S. Sibley
Publication date: 2016

3. A Life on Fire: Oklahoma's Kate Barnard

Author: Connie Cronley
Publication date: 2021

4. A Notorious Woman: Anne Royall in Jacksonian America

Author: Elizabeth J. Clapp
Publication date: 2016

5. America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today

Author: Pamela S. Nadell
Publication date: 2019

6. Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage

Author: Trisha Franzen
Publication date: 2014

7. Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer

Author: Nancy C. Unger
Publication date: 2016

8. Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

Author: Jung Chang
Publication date: 2019

9. Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism

Author: Sarah L. Silkey
Publication date: 2015

10. Eleanor

Author: David Michaelis
Publication date: 2020

11. Eleanor Marx: A Life

Author: Rachel Holmes
Publication date: 2015

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

Author: Janet Wallach
Publication date: 2023

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

Author: Helen Rappaport
Publication date: 2022

14. Just Relations: The Story of Mary Bennett's Crusade for Aboriginal Rights

Author: Alison Holland
Publication date: 2015

15. Keep the Days: Reading the Civil War Diaries of Southern Women

Author: Steven M. Stowe
Publication date: 2018

16. Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk

Author: Amy S. Greenberg
Publication date: 2019

17. Lincoln's Generals' Wives: Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War—for Better and for Worse

Author: Candice Shy Hooper
Publication date: 2016

18. Lucy Stone: An Unapologetic Life

Author: Sally G. McMillen
Publication date: 2015

19. Maria Baldwin's Worlds: A Story of Black New England and the Fight for Racial Justice

Author: Kathleen Weiler
Publication date: 2019

20. Nellie Francis: Fighting for Racial Justice and Women's Equality in Minnesota

Author: William D. Green
Publication date: 2020