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Lucrezia Borgia by Maria Bellonci
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Women in History | Reading Level: very good
Among the violent personalities of the High Renaissance, Lucrezia Borgia is chiefly remembered as a raven-haired poisoner, but the Lucrezia depicted here is a passionate, womanly figure moving uncertainly through the Papal court and through the intrigues, ambitions and chicanery around her. Paperback (B ...Show more
Mary Queen Of Scots by Antonia Fraser
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Women in History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Ground-breaking ... One of the greatest international bestsellers of the post-war period' Andrew Roberts, Daily Telegraph 'Reads like an engrossing novel' Sunday Times An infant queen. A teenage widow. Beautiful, flamboyant Mary Queen of Scots had a formidable intellect but her political sense - formed ...Show more
The Rebel Countess - The Life and Times of Constance Markievicz by Anne Marreco
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Category: Biography | Series: Women in History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
She was a vivid star in the constellation of remarkable men and women who created Ireland¿s political and literary renaissance in the early years of the twentieth century. Beautiful, admirable, aggravating, Constance is chiefly known for her part in the Easter Rising of 1916, but how she came to be ther ...Show more
The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters by Anne De Courcy
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Category: Biography | Series: Women in History Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Viceroy's Daughters is the riveting chronicle of the dazzling lives of three remarkable sisters -- aristocratic, rich, spirited and willful-born when the wealth and privilege of the British upper classes were at their zenith. Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (born 1898) and Alexandra (born 1904) were the ...Show more
The Weaker Vessel - Woman's lot in seventeenth-century England by Antonia Fraser
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Category: United Kingdom | Series: Women in History | Reading Level: very good
Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce? What rights had the unmarried? What expectations the widows? An ...Show more
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