Best known as an immigrant autobiographer-primarily for the much-celebrated The Promised Land (1912)... more

Florence Nightingale is best known as a woman of action--a founder of modern nursing, a reformer in ... more

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke and sister to Sir Philip Sidney, is the most important wom... more

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke and sister to Sir Philip Sidney, is the most important wom... more

These eight volumes contain the works of Mary Shelley and include introductions and prefatory notes ... more

Accused of transvestism and trickery, indicted for bigamy and hanged for robbery, Mary Carleton, the... more

Until fairly recently, Arab women rarely received professional health care, since few women doctors ... more

From Booklist Erdrich and Dorris currently share great success as a literary couple with their uniqu... more

Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre - With sketches and anecdotes of the C... more

The first edition of the collected poetry and prose of the Restoration feminist, Mary, Lady Chudleig... more

Over the last decade research into design processes utilizing ideas and models drawn from artificial... more

"Brings together the pwerful works of a mother/daughter combination... These novels will prove a fou... more

This interdisciplinary study explores Marian imagery and representations in world literature and art... more

Renewed interest in the life and works of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley has in recent years generated ... more

A new investigation of the saints’ cults which flourished in medieval Scotland, fruitfully combining... more

These letters chronicle the wartime courtship of a Confederate soldier and the woman he loved--a sis... more

These letters chronicle the wartime courtship of a Confederate soldier and the woman he loved--a sis... more

Mary Tighe s unpublished novel Selena is one of the great unknown treasures of British Romanticism. ... more

Originally written in elegant Latin, this paperback takes the translation from the original hardcove... more

The Blessed Virgin Mary is uniquely associated with Catholicism, and the century preceding the Secon... more

The Art Songs of Louise Talma presents some of Talma s finest compositions and those most frequently... more

The diary of a wife who, with their five-year old daughter, accompanied her husband on a three-and-a... more

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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian C. Vann Woodward and Chesnut’s biographer Elisabeth Muhlenfeld pres... more

The New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s... more

Interest in the contribution made by women to the history of philosophy is burgeoning. Intense resea... more

All of the available letters of Charles Lamb, a master of the English essay, and his sister Mary Ann... more

All of the available letters of Charles Lamb, a master of the English essay, and his sister Mary Ann... more

Mary Austin Holley (1784-1846), a cousin of Stephen F. Austin, journeyed to Texas on three separate ... more

Marking the 500th year anniversary of the birth of Queen Mary I in 1516, this book both commemorates... more

Marie-Madeleine was a German Jew, lesbian poet and novelist whose eroticism and love for morphine wa... more

Published in 1853, the first American novel about the Mormons is also one of the best. John Russell,... more

Mary has often accompanied the life and spirituality of Christian saints in both the Western and Eas... more

The Miracles of the Virgin Mary, written c. 1135 by the Benedictine monk and historian William of Ma... more

Mary Midgley is one of the most important moral philosophers working today. Over the last thirty yea... more

The essays in this collection explore the diverse character of emerging Christian narratives. From p... more

The essays in this collection explore the diverse character of emerging Christian narratives. From p... more

For generations, the original Snake River-Palouse people lived a free, open life on the Columbia Pla... more

Approaching the writings of Mary Wroth through a fresh 21st-century lens, this volume accounts for a... more

Over the last twenty five years, scholarship on Early Modern women writers has produced editions and... more

Mary Ainsworth s work on the importance of maternal sensitivity for the development of infant attach... more

Celebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Personal Effects ... more

Mary Magdalene has been portrayed down through the ages as a repentant prostitute. The secret Tradit... more

The Road to the Spring is the first book publication of Mary Austin’s (1868-1934) poems. Best known ... more

Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire, a ... more

This innovative and multidisciplinary collection visits representations and interpretations of Mary ... more

Witchcraft was at its height in Elizabethan London. Edward Jorden showed that hysteria and not demon... more

All who live yearn for freedom--freedom from political oppression, poverty, disease, crime, war, and... more

The subject of this book by one of the Church of England’s most respected Anglo-Catholic priests cou... more

This book brings together a selection of recent, cutting-edge research which, for the first time, ch... more

A New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah’s "Books That Help Me Through" for Oprah’s Book Club "N... more

Mary Tighe s unpublished novel Selena is one of the great unknown treasures of British Romanticism. ... more

Seventeen interviews with George and Mary Oppen, conducted between 1968 and 1987, are here brought t... more

Louise Erdrich has shaped the possibilities for Native American, women s and popular fiction in the ... more

The reigns of Edward VI and Mary I remain largely by-passed in naval history, yet it was a vital tim... more

Mary McCarthy says: In general I would say that men actually have more feeling, and women perhaps mo... more