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The Scarlet sisters

sex, suffrage, and scandal in the Gilded Age
A look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business threatened the white male power structure of the nineteenth century and shocked the world.

Family album

a personal selection from four generations of Churchills
1982

Jane Franklin's obsession

1992
When Sir John Franklin disappears while searching for the North West Passage in 1845, his wife Lady Jane sends out numerous expeditions to search for him and eventually learns the awful fate of her husband and crew, but also maps new waterways and land masses.

A circle of sisters

Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin
2005

Winston and Clementine

the personal letters of the Churchills
1999
Presents a selection of the correspondence that passed between Winston and Clementine Churchill throughout the fifty-seven years of their life together, from 1908 through 1964, providing insights into the political and social events of the era, and revealing details of their enduring partnership.

Letters

1992

Aristocrats

Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832
1994
Profiles the great-granddaughters of King Charles II in the context of 18thcentury aristocracy in Great Britain.

Namesake

2013
While researching for a history paper on Lady Jane Greay, Jane finds herself face to face with her subject and slips into the past to avoid her own troubles at home.

Four women in a violent time

Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643) Mary Dyer (1591?-1660) Lady Deborah Moody (1600-1659) Penelope Stout (1622-1732)
1970
Traces the lives of four women who struggled for civil rights and justice in seventeenth-century America.

Nine days a queen

the short life and reign of Lady Jane Grey
2004
Lady Jane Grey, who at sixteen was Queen of England for nine days before being executed, recounts her life story from the age of nine.

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